IN NIGERIA

ALSO AVAILABLE TO PREORDER NOW MICHAEL PALIN IN THE PHILIPPINES COMING SEPTEMBER 2026 The extraordinary new book from the bestselling author a richly illustrated travel adventure across the African nation Illustrated throughout with colour photographs taken on the trip and brimming with wry humour and fascinating insights this is a vivid and varied portrait of a complex country With his eightieth birthday looming it crossed Michael Palin s mind that now might be the time to hang up his boots to lounge about at home to take things easy Then the opportunity to visit Africa s most populous nation arose A few weeks later he was at Lagos airport camera crew in town In the journal he kept during his trip he gives a vivid account of the towns and cities he visited the landscapes he travelled through and the people he met from vibrant but chaotic Lagos to seemingly deserted streets of Nigeria s hyper modern capital Abuja to the polluted oil fields of the Niger Delta Michael Palin is welcomed as an honoured guest by a powerful emir and harangued by a passerby in Benin City He hears the testimony of a kidnap victim of the terrorist group Boko Haram and experiences the collective spiritual ecstasy of one of Nigeria s mega churches And