By 10 a.m., on a Monday morning, Kemi, a trader at Balogun Market in Lagos, has already lived through half a dozen national crises. Standing behind her stall, she scrolls through her phone between customers. A message about a kidnapping circulates through a WhatsApp group. Moments later, another alert announces a fuel price increase. Before she has finished discussing that news with neighbouring traders, a celebrity controversy dominates social media. By lunchtime, she has moved from anxiety to anger, from frustration to amusement, and back aga
By 10 a.m., on a Monday morning, Kemi, a trader at Balogun Market in Lagos, has already lived through half a dozen national crises. Standing behind her stall, she scrolls through her phone between customers. A message about a kidnapping circulates through a WhatsApp group. Moments later, another alert announces a fuel price increase. Before she has finished discussing that news with neighbouring traders, a celebrity controversy
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