AJ CitiesAbraham Adesyan Estate
A walled estate on the edge of Ajegunle, where Navy Town meets Kirikiri. One street, one club, one gate that costs ₦2,500,000.
The real place
Ajegunle
The real neighbourhood that gave the game its name: AJ City, by the ports of Apapa.
- Nickname
- AJ City
- Where
- Lagos mainland, beside the Apapa and Tin Can Island ports
- Shared language
- Nigerian Pidgin English
- Known for
- Music, football, and a hustle all its own
AJ Cities takes its name from Ajegunle, a neighbourhood on the Lagos mainland that everybody calls AJ City. The game's estate and its people are invented; the place that inspired them is very real.
Ajegunle sits beside the Apapa and Tin Can Island ports, among the busiest in Nigeria. It is crowded, low-lying and swampy, and the rainy season brings floods to its streets and open drains. People came to work at the ports from every part of Nigeria, so Ajegunle has always been a mix of many ethnic groups, and Nigerian Pidgin English is the language everybody shares. The name is usually translated from Yoruba as something like "wealth has landed here".
Ajegunle is often described as one of Lagos's toughest neighbourhoods, and it is also one of its proudest. It is famous for its music scene and for the professional footballers who grew up kicking a ball in its streets. That energy, the crowding, the humour, the generators and the hustle, is what AJ Cities is trying to capture.
The game itself is set at the edge of AJ City, in a fictional estate beside Navy Town and Kirikiri. Every character in it is invented.
Nearby
The estate The street June 12 Street
The estate's one main street: a coal pot, a rooming house, a clinic, a gym, a restaurant and a club.