Inside The Notorious Bariga Slum Where Rapper Olamide Grew Up (Photos)

Most of you have heard different tales
about the notorious Bariga. Here are
photos from a part of the area.

This side is the Araromi street side of
Bariga which is dominated by the ‘Ilajes’
and the ‘Eguns’ and their most popular
occupation there is fishing because the
area faces the ocean around the Third
Mainland Bridge.
Here, there is extreme poverty, as in E-X-
T-R-E-M-E P-O-V-E-R-T-Y. Most of the
women roast fish to survive, many of the
ladies and guys take to all types of vices.
There is only one school in the area
(pictured below) provided by a white
man who visited the area sometime ago.
Yet, there are all sorts of talents in there.
From rapping to dancing, the youths of
the Barigahood possess them in
abundants.
But it looks like government sees the
people in this slum as outcasts because
development is far away from that area,
yet it’s in a Mega City called Lagos.
Past government rather than
contributing to developing the area, visit
some parts to destroy houses and render
many homeless.
Thus, the people have come to develop a
deep hatred for the word ‘government’.
Meanwhile, the guys and babes in this
hood no dey smile at all O and their eyes
dey red die! (if you know what we mean)