Botched dreams for Ilojo Bar

Kenneth C. Murray, a former art teacher from the West Midlands, stood at the cradle of Ilojo Bar as a National Monument. The colonial antiquities officer was smitten with Ilojo Bar, which he called 'the greatest architectural interest of all buildings in Lagos'. He and his colleague Bernard Fagg were instrumental in giving the structure its monumental status in 1956. Read how the British got Ilojo Bar's story wrong.