In today’s times, Nigeria is building up to be a throbbing powerhouse: as the continent's most populous country – roughly one in every five Africans is Nigerian – it leads the region. Lagos, the capital, is a cosmopolitan metropolis with a thriving cultural scene and a thriving IT industry.
You may feel like a lone adventurer beyond Gidi (as Lagosians nickname their metropolis). There are many good antidotes to a potentially arduous journey through Yoruba shrines to slave ports, historic Muslim towns to river deltas, and gorgeous natural landscapes.
With the increase in Nigeri...