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

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.”

the hardest thing to deal with, after weeks of constant power cuts, is the noise of the generators

I couldn't remember what life was like before I started walking.”