Lagos, Nigeria

Olayinka Oluwakuse III on what to see, do, taste, and buy—and how to speak some pidgin along the way-o.

WHERE TO RUB ELBOWS: EKO HOTEL on Victoria Island. Recently, I went to a presidential dinner there for everyone in the arts. President Goodluck Jonathan was there; Finance Minister Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala was there; Petroleum Resources Minister Diezani Alison-Madueke was there. There were some Nollywood stars: Aki and Pawpaw, Kunle Afolayan, Monalisa Chinda. EKOHOTELS.COM WE SAT IN ENDLESS TRAFFIC, listening to Afrobeat on Smooth 98.1, in downtown Lagos, Nigeria. Olayinka Oluwakuse III, who goes by Yinka, explained that he isn’t a full-time fixer for journalists—or, at least, that he doesn’t do it for the money. He does the job (and does it well) because he likes hanging out with people—whether it’s taking them to Makoko, a slum on Lagos’s waterfront that, he said, journalists always want to see, or escorting them to…

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Foreign Policy (Digital) - 1 Issue, January - February 2015

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