The Detty December bubble: How Nigeria is pricing itself out of a billion-dollar cultural economy

Detty December was never a government blueprint or a carefully sequenced tourism policy. It was a market accident—an explosion of Nigerian soft power driven by Afrobeats dominance, diaspora homecomings, nightlife innovation and Lagos’ raw, chaotic magnetism. In economic terms, it was a positive

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