There was no telling that day that the large dispatch of newly harvested onions from Kano, the commercial hub of Nigeria’s agrarian north, to the southernmost city of Port Harcourt on the edge of the Atlantic was all a labour at nothing.
Bala Alo, 60, born into the onion trade and now the custodian of a legacy business that has survived a generation down the family line, rose before dawn to prepare a truckload of produce destined for the Rivers State capital.
It was early 2013 in…
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