EPISODE 06 · Lagos, Nigeria · OPPORTUNITY SPOTTING
Everything, Twice
23 minTHE FILM
In a city of twenty million where almost nothing works on its own, everything gets built twice — your own power, your own water, your own way through. That may be why it is the most inventive place on Earth.
Lagos runs on the hum of a million generators and the nerve of the people feeding them — and the same constraint that makes daily life relentless is exactly what makes it a startup capital. We move from the generator sellers of the mainland to the fintech floors of Yaba, following the logic that a place where you must build your own everything is a place that learns, fast, how to build anything.
IN THIS FILM
- 01
THE PLACE
Lagos — twenty-million-strong and rising, a city that supplies its own infrastructure by sheer will.
- 02
THE PEOPLE
The generator seller, the danfo driver, the twenty-six-year-old founder shipping to the world from Yaba.
- 03
THE TECHNOLOGY
The generator economy and the fintech boom — what gets invented when nothing is given.
