Nigeria, April 10 -- As the car moved slowly through the Geri-Alimi intersection in Ilorin, I knew immediately the emirate city had moved past my imagination. It was in the last week of January, almost five years since I left the University of Ilorin. The most significant observation for me came in the erection of new restaurants at almost every major junction across the metropolis---Stadium Road, General, Taiwo Oke, Taiwo Isale, Unity, Cocacola, Challenge, Post Office, Flower Garden, Fate-Tanke, Sanrab, all the way to Oke-Odo.

It's restaurants, restaurants. everywhere!

Of course, I found the Quick Service Restaurants proliferation quite fascinating.

First off, there is a sense in which the development speaks to a Nigerian saturation p...