The city’s 24 million people can sit in gridlocked streets for more than 30 hours a week. For some, that represents a good way to make a living
Just after 6am, Omowumi Adekanmbi leaves the one-room flat where she lives with her four children. An hour later, she is at work in the gridlocked morning traffic – her customers the frustrated car commuters of Lagos.
From a bowl balanced on her head, Adekanmbi deftly hands over cans of fizzy drinks with one hand and collects naira banknotes with the other. When the bowl is empty, she buys more and returns to lines of cars that have barely moved in the meantime.
Omowumi Adekanmbi with the cold drinks she will sell to a captive audience of stationary motorists
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