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Space travel: from Lagos to Tokyo

Tuesday 17 July 2012 - Eye witness

Overcrowded train at Lagos where passengers are even sitting on the roofTrain official with passengers on sparkling clean Tokyo metro












After four years running AFP's bureau in Lagos, Nigeria’s notoriously chaotic and dangerous megapolis, Jacques Lhuillery has recently arrived in Japan to take up the equivalent post in Tokyo, one of the most organized, safest and cleanest super-cities in the world. The contrast is so striking, he tells us, it’s like moving from one planet to another. (AFP Photo)

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