Aba’s N120bn shoe industry booms despite neglect

Leonard Kujabi, a Gambian bank worker, was in Aba, Nigeria’s shoe capital, in May 2018. He came to the country with his family for a three-week holiday. After crisscrossing Powerline, a cluster in Ariaria Market, one of the days, he bought 15 pairs of shoes, selling 10 to friends and neighbours wh