Michael Palin in Nigeria
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Never let it be said that Michael Palin, at 80, is losing his intrepid side. Trips in recent years to North Korea and Iraq have not put him off the laborious faff of travel. Far from it. Here he was, in Michael Palin in Nigeria, bustling through a madly crowded market in Lagos describing the place in the manner of an overreaching estate agent. “Vibrant chaos!”, “invigorating”, an “assault on the senses!”
In fairness, he was hardly soft-selling the place either — almost in the same breath he was telling us that by 2099 Lagos will be the biggest city in the world, with 88 million people. Which is
