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Area boys
Area boys (also known as ''Agberos'') are loosely organized gangs of street children and teenagers, composed mostly of men, who roam the streets of Lagos, Lagos State in Nigeria.〔Simon Heap,“Their Days are Spent in Gambling and Loafing, Pimping for Prostitutes, and Picking Pockets”: Male Juvenile Delinquents on Lagos Island, Nigeria, 1920s-60s’, ''Journal of Family History'', 35(1), 2010, 48-70; http://jfh.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/0363199009348306v1〕 They extort money from passers-by, sell illegal drugs, act as informal security guards, and perform other "odd jobs" in return for compensation.
==Demographics==
Area boys have existed in the city of Lagos since the early 1980s. However, under various names, types of Area Boys have been traced back to the 1920s.〔^ Simon Heap,“Their Days are Spent in Gambling and Loafing, Pimping for Prostitutes, and Picking Pockets”: Male Juvenile Delinquents on Lagos Island, Nigeria, 1920s-60s’, ''Journal of Family History'', 35(1), 2010, 48-70; http://jfh.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/0363199009348306v1〕 In 2007, the total number of area boys in Lagos was estimated at over 35,000 by a member of the Lagos State Judiciary;〔 〕 as of 1996, the number of them operating on Lagos Island alone was placed around 1,000.〔 A 1996 study of area boys on Lagos Island by Abubakar Momoh showed that only 26.4% of area boys were from Lagos State, while the rest were natives of Ogun State (22.6%), Kwara State (14.2%), and Oyo State (14.1%), amongst other states. Most were between twelve and thirty-five years old.〔Momoh, p. 194〕
Asked whether they were "proud" to be area boys, 18% of respondents said yes, while 75% said no (7% did not respond).〔Momoh, p. 191〕
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