Re: USA Africa Dialogue Series - FESTAC: A Ni­ger­ian neighborhood symbolizes nation’s tumble toward crisis

What type of property rights system undergirds ownership of these properties? 

On Thu, Mar 5, 2015 at 1:50 AM, Olukayode Soremekun <nikesohe@hotmail.com> wrote:

What we see in places like FESTAC is as much the attitude of the people who own property and live there as it is the lack of responsibility on the part of the owner, the FGN. I visit the place and all I see are dotted individual efforts. No collective self interest to make the neighbourhood work for them. 

Sbaba,

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On 5 Mar 2015, at 00:44, 'Ikhide' via USA Africa Dialogue Series <usaafricadialogue@googlegroups.com> wrote:

"LAGOS, Nigeria — It was once a place so full of middle-class promise that locals called it Paradise Village or Little London, for its orderly grid of streets, palmy boulevards, parks, and new apartment buildings painted in pastel greens and blues. Lion statues marked one entrance to the suburban enclave on the bushy edges of Lagos, and an iron gate marked another.

"It used to say, 'Welcome to Festac,' " said longtime resident Victor Udoh, 38, standing at the entrance one recent afternoon. "Now just look at it."

He walked under a rusted yellow bar heralding the barely recognizable place that his neighborhood has become: a network of lightless streets and decaying apartments where water hasn't run since 1995, generators buzz all day, and people cram into one-room living quarters that used to be called "face-me-I-face-you" but are now called "face-me-I-slap-you" because of how harsh life can be."

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- Ikhide

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