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\"Africa<\/a>The BBC\u2019s three-part series Welcome to Lagos was widely praised, and criticised. Nobel laureate Wole Soyinka castigated the \u201ccolonialist idea of the noble savage which motivated the programme\u201d. The stories collected on a rubbish dump, in a meat market and beside the lagoon of Nigeria\u2019s \u2018Mega City\u2019 are sympathetically portrayed. But in depicting resourcefulness and the precarious nature of everyday urban life, the series emphasised the commonality of human experience. For viewers in Britain, seldom has Africa seemed so close to home.<\/p>\n

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Author<\/strong> – Michael Holden<\/div>\n
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Michael Holden argues that by depicting resourcefulness and the precarious nature of everyday urban life, the BBC series \u201cWelcome to Lagos\u201d underscored the commonality of human experience. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":9416,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[277,2303,32,174,172,170,173,171,67,169],"class_list":["post-983","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-counterpoints","tag-africa-tv","tag-culture","tag-media-in-publications","tag-mega-city","tag-michael-holden","tag-nigeria","tag-representation-of-africa","tag-television","tag-urbanisation","tag-welcome-to-lagos"],"aioseo_notices":[],"yoast_head":"\nAfrica TV - Africa through my television - Africa Research Institute<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Michael Holden reviews the BBC's three-part series "Welcome to Lagos" and explores the representation of Africa through television. 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