I grew up in one of the suburbs in Abuja; not in the well planned parts previously reserved for senior civil servants, but in the unplanned parts with majority of the houses built haphazardly on lands bought from the local (indigenous) village heads. There were all manner of houses in our neighbourhood ranging from large compounds with rooms (both single and double rooms) for tenants who shared a common toilet to well floored compounds containing sets of three bedroom flats. The common toilet compounds usually housed large number of tenants, some compounds having as much as forty rooms each often occupied by either a family or a bachelor. Most of the occupants were usually petty traders and members of the unskilled labour force. The self contained apartments and flats mainly housed civil servants and more established business men (traders). The differences in housing styles represented the differences in economic levels of their occupants.
Though each household had their unique lifestyles and experiences largely determined by tribal, religious, economic and personality factors, there were several experiences that were common to most inhabitants of my neighbourhood and members of such communities generally irrespective of religion and tribe. I would be using this platform to give you an inside view of some of some of these experiences.
My writings are based on my perception of the happenings around me while growing up; it might or might not correspond to the experiences of all members of the lower middle class.
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