Lagos has never been, will never be, and has never aspired to be like New York, or anywhere else, for that matter. Lagos has always been indisputably itself, but you would not know this at the meeting of the Nigeropolitan Club, a group of young returnees who gather every week to moan about the many ways that Lagos is not like New York as though Lagos had ever been close to being like New York. Full disclosure: I am one of them.