The Computer Village in Lagos, Nigeria, is home to most of the city’s consumer electronics shops – both official and unofficial. (Iain Marlow/The Globe and Mail)
Makoko, a slum in Lagos, is famous for being built out onto the water. This shack sells cellphone SIM cards. (Iain Marlow/The Globe and Mail)
A mobile phone shop in the Computer Village neighbourhood of Lagos, Nigeria, where many of the country's mobile phones are sold. Tecno is a Hong Kong-based phone manufacturer that focuses on growth in Africa. (Iain Marlow/The Globe and Mail)
A huge Samsung advertisement looms down from the wall of a mobile phone shop in Computer Village. It advertises a smaller and cheaper version of the smartphones that have propelled Samsung to smartphone success in wealthier countries in the West. (Iain Marlow/The Globe and Mail)
A mobile phone shop in the Computer Village area of Lagos, Nigeria, where many mobile devices and consumer electronics are sold. (Iain Marlow/The Globe and Mail)
A young man in Lagos, Nigeria uses a BlackBerry to take a picture of himself at a concert put on by famed Nigerian musician Femi Kuti. (Iain Marlow/The Globe and Mail)
Staff wait for customers at the grand opening of Research In Motion's first official BlackBerry store in Lagos, Nigeria. (Iain Marlow/The Globe and Mail)
Robert Bose, Research In Motion's managing director for the middle east and Africa, greets the head of a Nigerian retail chain that has just opened a dedicated BlackBerry store. (Iain Marlow/The Globe and Mail)
to get it and come back to see the ad in front of this gallery.
