We Need To Talk About ‘Lah-gos’ In Captain America: Civil War

Hi there

Well recently I had the opportunity to watch the movie, Captain America ; Civil War and I must say there is a lot of things I have to say about Lah-gos in the movie.

So for the sake of fun, let's look at the difference between Lah-gos, Nigeria and Lagos, Nigeria.

every time someone in the movie pronounced it as Lah-gos.

 What are these ones saying?

 Lagos, watching the movie like:

Who are you calling Lah-gos, biko?

 Oya, let’s think of some of the ways Lah- gos, Nigeria is completely different from Lagos, Nigeria.

When they started off with Black Widow and Scarlet Witch drinking coffee under Lah-gos sun.

 Abeg abeg! 

Lagos sun and hell fire that are like: 

See ehn, Lagos in the afternoon is not where you want anything hot anywhere near you.

 They now showed us two Lah-gos policemen and neither of them had a potbelly.

WE DON’T BELIEVE YOU! 

Edakun, where was this oga in all this? 

Well, he was probably still sleeping. 

Then we saw Falcon looking down at a Lah-gos street in the middle of the day

Are we dreaming?

 …and the roads were actually free.

Where is all the traffic?

There was actually light in Lah-gos in the afternoon.

Which light? 

PHCN and Lagos that are like:

Na so.

Fast forward to Black Widow in the middle of a Lah-gos market See all those shops behind her.

…and nobody did this:

“Aunty, I get nice shet for you. Sket, chinos, spaghetti Sef dey” 

Even when Falcon finally came down to join her

A whole Anthony Mackie. 

…not one Igbo brother shouted “heysss fine boy!” at him.

Who will now buy all their jeans trousiz?

Then see Lah-gosians that were just standing around watching people with guns and bombs fight.

HOW? Real Lagosians, when they hear anything that just sounds like a gunshot:

 They are not about that life, abeg.

Captain America, calling for the Lah-gos fire and rescue department after a bombing:

…and they actually arrived on time. 

The real Lagos fire department when you call them:

No vex, Captain America!

Anyway, all na jokes. Lagos is awesome and so is the movie. Oya, go see it if you haven’t.