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Al Jazeera
Al Jazeera
Technology
Tilewa Kazeem

Want status in Nigeria? An informal iPhone market offers dreams and despair

A mobile phone repairer works in Computer Village in Ikeja, Lagos, Nigeria, [File: Akintunde Akinleye/EPA-EFE]

Lagos, Nigeria – Kola Alawada shelters from the rain beneath the shade of a phone accessories kiosk in Computer Village in Lagos, his old Android phone with a cracked screen clutched in his hand.

The sprawling, chaotic marketplace in southwestern Nigeria is Africa’s largest technology hub, where streets lined with shopping plazas and informal stalls sell and repair a plethora of devices across a range of price points.

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