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

I have taken into myself some of the assumptions of life in a Western democracy—certain ideas about legality, for instance, certain expectations of due process—and in that sense I have returned a stranger.”

while the buildings and roads of the capital city suggest a rational, orderly society, the reality is the opposite

I became aware of just how fleeting the sense of happiness was, and how flimsy its basis: a warm restaurant after having come in from the rain, the smell of food and wine, interesting conversation, daylight falling weakly on the polished cherrywood of the tables.”