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“Dealing with the Prince over Lagos”: Pentecostal Arts of Citizenship

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The Arts of Citizenship in African Cities

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Lagos is one of the world’s largest mega-cities, projected to reach 20 million people by 2015. Routinely ranked as one of the five worst places to live in the world, it lends itself to all manner of apocalyptic characterizations, with its catastrophically inadequate infrastructure and public services, appalling pollution, and chaotic overcrowding; an unspeakable concentration of anarchy, human misery, crime, and violence. As Kaplan argues, Lagos has become “the cliché par excellence of Third World urban dysfunction” (2000: 15).

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Marshall, R. (2014). “Dealing with the Prince over Lagos”: Pentecostal Arts of Citizenship. In: Diouf, M., Fredericks, R. (eds) The Arts of Citizenship in African Cities. Africa Connects. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137481887_5

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