Lagos Migrant Histories: From the pepper farm to the mega city; an Interview With Dr Abosede George

"The Ekopolitan project...is a project about migrant communities in 19th century Lagos and I’m interested in a few different migrations; people who are migrating as refugees from wars, people who are migrating to settle in that kind of a free land if they had been enslaved previously, people who are migrating to rediscover their home if they were in their lifetime had been taken away or coming back in the same life time. So that kind of project I think connects Lagos as an island which was, maybe – the most densely populated place in the region at that time – connects that space to other territories in West Africa, other territories in Yoruba land." - Dr Abosede George  You can read the full transcript here: Lagos Migrant Histories: An Interview With Dr Abosede George