-most major city of West Africa

Name - République de Lagos (French) / República de Lagos (Portuguese) / جمهورية تي إيكو (Yoruba)

Continent - Africa

Capital - Lagos (city-state)

Head of state - Grand Elector -------

Head of government - Consul -------

Legislature - Representative Council (initiative), Legislative Body (decision)

President of the Representative Council -

President of the Legislative Body -

Conserving body - Council of Chiefs

President of the Council of Chiefs -

Judiciary - Grand Council of Revision

President of the Grand Council of Revision - Laurent Schwartz

Form of government - Unitary republic under a democratic solonic consular constitution

Form of law - Cambacérès Code

Demonym - Lagossian

Area - 10,983 km^2

Largest city - Lagos

Time zone -

Currency - Lagossian piastre

Languages - French, Portuguese, Yoruba

Population - 19,252,000

Religion - Independent Catholicism, Calvinism, Roman Catholicism, Islam (co-official)

Density - 1752.86 /km^2

National festival -

Anthem -

Motto -

-in 1825, France, having long had a presence fighting slave trade intervenes in Lagos and restores Adele Ajosun as Oba of Lagos

-in 1827, British Isles ships storm in, remove Adele Ajosun after ship battle, and then put Osinlokun back

-but soon afterwards, word comes of British Wars > Popular Revolution (1827-9), French ships attack again, and British ships confused retreat and move to Sierra Leone

-French move back in

-his son Oluwole succeeds as Oba in 1837

-realizing French are trying to make him a puppet, tries to kick them out in 1843

-but they rally behind Akitoye, prop up his ambitions and send ships up and make him Oba in 1844

-in return for ban of slave trade and permanent military presence

-makes Lagos major port and base for whole region

-growth of commercial zone of influence with palm oils

-missionaries frowned upon and often kicked out

-in 1859, full ban on slavery issued

-French rescuees from many (particularly Portuguese) ships put there

-also Afro-Brazilian diaspora (Amaros) comes here, creating sizeable creole group which makes up a quite large proportion

-resulting in Lagosien architecture being deeply based on Brazilian architecture

-and Portuguese-based creole influential, Portuguese co-official

-also there's Afro-Brazilian expansion into interior in 1860s

-use their guns to make themselves in high positions within Yoruba states

-result in many wars and adoption of modernized rifles

-allows Sokoto to expand its conquest southwards because this draws a lot of Yoruba troops

-rail-building to and from French outposts to Lagos, connecting coastal region

-in the age of colonial nationalization, Lagos becomes the informal capital of France's Niger Coast Protectorate

-also, with rise of Sokoto quite a few Yoruba states sign on to save themselves from conquest

-sees slow conversion to Christianity in this era

-this results in growth of population as well and formalization of protectorate