Tyler Cowen, Columnist

I'm a Tourist in Lagos. You Have a Problem With That?

It's a neat place for a GDP freak like me.

December 29, 2016 at 11:00 AM UTC

Tyler Cowen is a Bloomberg Opinion columnist, a professor of economics at George Mason University and host of the Marginal Revolution blog.

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I'm spending six days as a tourist in Lagos, Nigeria. A lot of people seem to think that's pretty strange. The place is not renowned for its food (one of my main interests), nor was there a special event or festival on, nor did I know anyone in Africa's biggest metropolis. It’s commonly cited as one of the most crime-ridden, congested and hellish cities on the planet. That’s not a fair description (a topic for another column), but I didn’t know that before booking.

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