Help us fight corruption. If any employee of the consulate asks for a bribe or tip, please, have a discreet word with the Consul General - Teju Cole

Policemen routinely stop drivers of commercial vehicles at this spot to demand bribe

Each neighborhood of the city appeared to be made of a different substance, each seemed to have a different air pressure, a different psychic weight: the bright lights and shuttered shops, the housing projects and luxury hotels, the fire escapes and city parks.”

Blacks, ‘we blacks’ had known rougher ports of entry [...] This was the acknowledgement he wanted, in his brusque fashion, from every ‘brother’ he met.