The Balance

They told her the laptop was dead. She heard it listening. In the Makoko waterfront of Lagos, Amara is the girl nobody counts — poor, brilliant, and quietly furious at a country where money only ever flows one way: up, and away. Then she follows a thread in a bank ledger and finds what the headlines never print: millions meant for clinics, school meals, and pensions, parked in the dark while the people it was promised to go hungry. So she starts moving it back. Every kobo to its rightful owner.