Silk Roadblock: Coronavirus Exposes Nigeria’s Reliance on China

Silk Roadblock: Coronavirus Exposes Nigeria’s Reliance on China
A vendor attends to a customer at his stall in Balogun market in Nigeria's commercial capital, Lagos, Nigeria, on March 5, 2020. Temilade Adelaja/Reuters
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LAGOS/LONDON—Yetunde Oluyide has run a gift shop in bustling Lagos for nearly a decade, but with coronavirus curtailing imports of Chinese goods, she is losing more than 2 million naira ($5,555) a month.

Oluyide’s reliance on China to fill the shelves of Yetty-Jewel Ventures reflects the close ties between the world’s second largest economy and Africa’s most populous country.