Lagos - Nigeria

[AcesHigh]

for such a giant city, it has a very disappoint skyline, doesnt matters if its in Africa or not. Latin American capitals are not that rich and see how beautiful Buenos Aires is, how cool Rio downtown is, how giant São Paulo is, how modern Santiago and Mexico City are...

[Schroedinger's Cat]

5.5
I don't like those buildings

[ryanr]

Not bad...6/10

[SoboleuS]

Skyline looks OK, but is very small for a 10 million metropolis 6/10

[LSyd]

i like it; truly 3rd world skylines have a great gritty look to 'em.

some more shots i found on the web:







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[You are to blame]

Originally Posted by AcesHigh

for such a giant city, it has a very disappoint skyline, doesnt matters if its in Africa or not. Latin American capitals are not that rich and see how beautiful Buenos Aires is, how cool Rio downtown is, how giant São Paulo is, how modern Santiago and Mexico City are...

I know what you mean, their are about 20 other cities in africa, that kick Lagos's ass aswell

[Nick in Atlanta]

4/10 First of all has anyone taken a recent photograph of this city. Maybe that would help get it a higher score. It seems like the pics that were available were pulled out of somebody's 30 year old scrapbook. Based on what I see I am very unimpressed, especially since this is the largest city in Africa, in terms of population in the metro area.

[skyscraperking2005]

Disgusting, 3/10, if that

[lumpia]

the problem is that all those skyscrapers u see around the world have nothing to do with "how beautiful we want to make the city", its ALL based on INVESTMENT: multinational business from other countries decide to designate branches of theirs in a country: and if the business is large enough, they build scrapers to accomodate their business scope. the problem with Africa plain and simple is that no one wants to invest there. plus, african governments are too financially weak to even consider building business parks or designate commercial districts for business before its main priority of feeding, providing security and trying its best to look after its citizens: thats the point of a government. anyway, i dont see what all the hubbub is: some cities attract investors because of position (Southeast Asian Cities, China, South America) others because of prestige (American cities, Japan, Korea, Europe).. Africa can't share in this because of old and i dare say racist prejudices of the peoples living there and the political situations in the countries.

for instance, Botswana has a HIGHER GDP than many Southeast Asian nations ($8,600), for instance (forgive me for naming you): Thailand ($6000)and the Philippines ($4000). but, botswana's capital Gaborone hardly has any scrapers, whereas Bangkok and Manila have truckloads. SO you see its mostly all to do with whether businesses are willing to set up in a country or not, and what drives businesses many times are prejudice: "Asia: Asian Tiger Economies, developing economies, Weird Culture, Japan, Phuket, etc" and then ocmes the typical images of Africa "Africa= Safaris, tribal wars, uncivilised, Somalia, Ethiopia, Deserts, AIDs".. you see?.. prejudice even in the business world!

so if you want to blame someone, i suggest you should point the fingers at those multinationals for being so choosy on where to set up.. at the risk of a few scrapers in your own capitals not being built. lol

[ryanr]

But out of the African countries, Nigeria does recieve more investment than others. It has vast oil fields, a big population, tropical land (instead of deserts), coastal location for trade, British influence, etc...

I disagree with most of you. My company does contract work in Lagos and some other Nigerian cities. The pictures posted above hardly give credit to the Lagos skyline and depict only a small portion of the Lagos metropolitan area.
Some stats that might help you decide what to rate the above.
-Nigeria is the 10th most populous nation in the world.
-It is the world'd 5th largest producers of crude oil/petroluem
Nigeria is also not as poor as some of you wrongfully noted, if those guys cough for a day in producing crude oil, our gas prices rise 35 cents a gallon right here in Southern California.
Check some other Nigerian city skylines out, when you get a chance; example: Abuja, Kano, Port Harcourt etc..

[clive330]

But Nigeria's GDP/C (at PPP) is only $849 which makes it very poor with personal incomes less than 10% of the richer African economies. Its national economy (with 135m people) is smaller than that of the African city of Johannesburg.

[sean storm]

very small skyline for such a huge city.

3.5/10

[Æsahættr]

Its got an OK skyline, in a nice setting too. 7/10

[David3820]

Now this may very well be my favortite african skyline and is even surprisingly interesting to me. 8.5/10

[perekamuda]

hey, forumers !!!
Dont forget Nigeria is the most populated country in Africa (+ 100 million)
It has the biggest oil resources among the African countries (National Geographic magazine 2004)
Other African oil riches such as Libya and Algeria look wealthier because of their quite small population (few millions only).

IMO, its quite depressing to see that Nigeria, the African "BIG-FAT" nation only has a capital with less density in skyscrapers

[Victoria]

7/10.

[MattSal]

As shiitie as should be expected. I give it a 6.5/10.

[Valia]

Ugly, caotic, it spoils the shore of a wonderful river. It does not surprise me that the Government went to another city. There it is not possible to be lived.

1/10

[Zaqattaq]

Does anybody have anything that looks a bit more recent