Taiwo Michael Oloyede Toni Kan’s The Carnivorous City offers a vivid portrait of Lagos as a living, breathing force—unforgiving, restless, and voracious. Lagos is not merely the backdrop of this story; it is its protagonist, shaping and consuming the lives caught within its sprawl. The city oscillates between chaos and extravagance, where minor disputes erupt into riots and fortunes evaporate in the glittering haze of champagne-fuelled nights. Abel Dike, a teacher in a quiet regional town, is reluctantly drawn into Lagos’s orbit when he receives a cryptic text message: Soni is missing. Soni, Abel’s younger brother, has built a shadowy…