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The Gospel According to Lagos | Part III

Every gospel ends with a revelation.

For me, it’s this:

Lagos was never the backdrop.
She was always the main character.

To everyone who has loved this city, left it, cursed it, celebrated it, or still calls it home—this final chapter is for you.

“She is the story. We are only passing through.”

#TheGospelAccordingToLagos #Lagos #SpokenWord #Poetry #AtandaDoesTheMath by @2692m

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9 days ago

The Gospel According to Lagos | Part II

The rain remembers.

The danfo listens.

The lagoon judges no one.

This is the Lagos we don’t always talk about—the one where survival is ordinary, hope is stubborn, and everyone is carrying a story you cannot see.

Part II of III.

“She never promised comfort. Only possibility.”

#TheGospelAccordingToLagos #Lagos #SpokenWord #Poetry #atandadoesthemath by @2692m

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10 days ago

The Gospel According to Lagos: Part 1.

Most cities are visited but Lagos is survived.

This poem is about the city that raised us, broke us, fed us, and taught us to keep dancing.

If you’ve ever crossed Third Mainland Bridge with a pocket full of hope, this one’s for you.

Written & performed by Atanda.

#TheGospelAccordingToLagos #SpokenWord #Lagos #Poetry #atandadoesthemath by @2692m

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13 days ago

The Great Gatsby (2013)

“Tomorrow, we will run faster, stretch out our arms farther,and one fine morning…
And so we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly, into the past.” by @2692m

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9 hours ago

You paid for it.

Then you spent time making it usable.

Beans.
Water.
Electricity.
Internet.

We’ve somehow accepted that buying something doesn’t mean it’s ready.

In Economics of Culture III, I explore what I call Time Taxes—the hidden hours Nigerians spend correcting everyday inefficiencies.

After all, every economy is measured in money & every life is measured in time.

#AtandaDoesTheMath #Nigeria #TimeTaxes #Economics by @2692m

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16 days ago

Economics of Culture II

There’s a government agency in Nigeria that officially never existed - It still had a ₦1.3 billion budget line. A real line item, in the actual 2026 Appropriation Act, for an agency the Presidency now says was never created.

To get there, it had to pass ministry review. Committee review. The National Assembly & the Presidential assent. That’s an entire relay of checkpoints where nobody asked, “does this exist?”

There’s a bribery allegation attached to this story, and a court will sort that out but the part that doesn’t need a verdict is simpler, and more uncomfortable:

“a fictional agency moved further through Nigeria’s federal budgeting process than most real ones manage in a decade.”

That should worry us more than the allegation does.

Full breakdown — “A Fully Funded Ghost: Tales of Aso Rock’s Oversight Problem” — link in bio

#AtandaDoesTheMath #Nigeria #EconomicsofCulture #PublicFinance #AsoRock by @2692m

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21 days ago

Breathing beneath things that were never meant to be this heavy.

A poetic monologue about rain, flooding, memory, and the quiet cost of the things we keep postponing.

— Atanda

#Spokenword #Lagos #Naija #AtandaDoesTheMath by @2692m

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25 days ago

We often blame people for the culture we see as if we haven’t been rewarding that culture all along.

“The Monsters We Made” is the first essay in my new series, The Economics of Culture.

This isn’t an attempt at blaming content creators, politicians, or young people - It’s about incentives because societies eventually resemble what they reward.

Read the full essay on Substack.

The Math:

Culture = Σ (Rewards × Time)

Every reward is a vote for tomorrow’s culture.

#AtandaDoesTheMath #EconomicsOfCulture #Nigeria #Culture #Leadership by @2692m

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a month ago

Paper. Water. Power.

Three essays, one realization.

Over the past few weeks, we’ve followed the hidden costs of living in a low-trust environment. Not the obvious costs - the ones that quietly creep into prices, productivity, and everyday decisions.

A photocopy.
A borehole.
A generator.

Each one solves a problem and each one also tells a story - that the greatest wealth a nation can build is the confidence that those systems will simply work.

“That’s the Trust Dividend.”

Economics of Distrust concludes here.

Thank you for reading, debating, challenging, and sharing the journey. More stories and more math hidden in everyday life are coming soon.

#AtandaDoesTheMath #EconomicsOfDistrust #Nigeria #Economics #TrustInfrastructure by @2692m

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a month ago

Rrrrrrrrrrrrrr……

Nigeria spends billions every year on generators, diesel, maintenance, and private power solutions. The cost is hidden inside bread, haircuts, medicine, rent, and almost everything else we buy.

Rrrrrrrrrrrrrrr…

For many Nigerians, that sound is so familiar we barely hear it anymore. A generator was designed to be a backup.

In Nigeria, the backup became the system.

Economics of Distrust (Part 3)

Rrrrrrrrrrrrrrr……

#AtandaDoesTheMath #EconomicsOfDistrust #GeneratorEconomy #Nigeria by @2692m

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a month ago

Along Came a Spider. (2001) by @2692m

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a month ago

Lekki is surrounded by the Atlantic Ocean, the Lagos Lagoon, and receives heavy rainfall every year. Yet many residents still buy water, drill boreholes, and install treatment systems just to have clean water at home.

What’s even more ironic is that while residents worry about flooding during the rainy season, there are also concerns about groundwater contamination from the thousands of septic tanks and boreholes spread across the area.

The more I think about it, the more this feels like a trust problem rather than a water problem. When people don’t trust public systems, everyone builds private solutions. One borehole. One septic tank. One water tank. And somehow, everyone ends up paying more.

Economics of Distrust II

#AtandaDoesTheMath #Lekki #EconomicsOfDistrust by @2692m

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a month ago