agbero
n.— «Lagos is suchlike text, only more baffling, more amorphous.…Where else would you encounter the inventive ribaldry of the agbero (motor park tout)?» —“See Lagos and Die” by Niyi Osundare in Lagos Newswatch (Ikeja, Nigeria) Mar., 1995. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
Further reading
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