Victoria Island (Lagos)
I Do What I Want
Emerging from Lagos’s peninsular neighbourhoods, the alté scene is shaping an anarchic and infectious lifestyle that defies the constraints of the Nigerian mainstream and reverberates across global contemporary culture.
Written by Wale Oloworekende
Let Them Be Free
Exploring the scene’s eclectic aesthetic evolution: from Lagos’s cult horror films and the social critique of Yung Nollywood to gaming visual culture and world-building through Cruel Santino’s Subaru Boys project—and beyond.
Written by Adewojumi Aderemi
Okrika but Make It Fancy
The story of thrifting’s glamourisation in the Nigerian coastal city, from the dark logistics of the “bend down select” clothes trade to the emergence of independent alté brands and the global success of alté styling.
Written by Vincent Desmond