Apapa market, in the heart of one of Lagos’s most deprived areas, might at first glance seem archetypally west African. Tinny music wafts from loudspeakers at cramped stalls while market traders hustle energetically to sell their goods.
But the Chinese women depicted on the boxes of many of the products reveal the close connection between the market and the nearby ports of Apapa and Tin-Can Island. The market is the ultimate destination for many of the containers that come rolling out of the ports having arrived on ships from China.
The market traders’ main concern is how the surge of Chinese imports has affected the quality of goods compared with the European-made merchandise that once dominated.
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