Lagos, May 19, 2026 (AFP) - A walk through Lagos's China Town

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2026-05-19

Rearing up beside a busy highway in Lagos, the imposing pink structure is hard to miss -- welcome to China Town, bringing a bit of Beijing to Nigeria's sprawling commercial and cultural capital. Resembling a medieval fortress, two long walls at the entrance -- once bright scarlet red but now faded to dusty pink -- covered in Chinese characters lead to a large red archway, evoking a drawbridge opening onto another world. At first glance, China Tow......

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