Real Life in Nigeria: Weddings That Never End & Nollywood!

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A bride in gold. Music so loud the whole street dances. And then the country behind the wedding.

Nigeria is 240 million people — Africa's biggest country — run on chaos and hustle. Lagos, Africa's biggest city, holds 17 to 21 million people and never stops. Abuja, the capital, was built from nothing in the bush. Kano has dyed cloth indigo for 500 years. The oil Delta pumps billions and keeps almost none of it. Nollywood makes 2,500 films a year — second only to Bollywood. The markets of Onitsha and Balogun are run by women. Afrobeats went from Lagos street parties to a billion streams and a brand-new Grammy award for Burna Boy. And between it all, the weddings: aso-ebi cloth, the Igbo wine-carrying, Hausa henna nights — a Nigerian wedding is a market day first.

This is real life in Nigeria. Not the headlines. The streets, the markets, the music, the weddings — and the shadows too: the 419 scams, Hushpuppi and the $1.7 million restitution, the confraternity born in a university in 1977, and a country split north against south that refuses to sit still.

CHAPTERS
0:00 Intro — A Wedding Like No Other
1:26 1. Lagos — Africa's Biggest City
3:23 2. Abuja — The Capital Built From Nothing
4:56 3. Kano — 500 Years of Indigo
6:45 4. Oil Delta — The Second Oil
8:27 5. Nollywood — 2,500 Films a Year
10:31 6. Markets — The Women Run the Markets
12:19 7. Music — Afrobeats Takes the World
14:11 8. Scams — Four One Nine
15:53 9. Black Axe — Born in a University
17:31 10. North vs South — One Country, Two Worlds

Which part of Nigeria would you visit first — Lagos, Kano, or the markets of Onitsha? Tell us in the comments.