Doctor Taxi

He trained to save lives. He never expected driving a taxi to change his own.Dr Chike Okafor is a young physician, unpublished poet, and heir to a wealthy Lagos family. His future appears to have been planned for him: practise medicine, uphold the family name, marry well and fulfil everyone else's expectations.Then he gets suspended from the hospital.With time on his hands and a restless curiosity about life beyond his privileged world, Chike secretly takes to the streets of Lagos as a taxi driver. What begins as a temporary diversion soon becomes something much bigger.Behind the wheel, Chike encounters the extraordinary people, contradictions and opportunities of a city that never stops moving. Every passenger seems to bring a story, an argument, a problem-or an unexpected doorway. And as his unlikely adventures draw him into new friendships, business opportunities and uncomfortable questions about wealth, purpose and the country he calls home, Chike begins to wonder whether the life chosen for him is really the life he wants.Meanwhile, his love life is refusing to behave itself.Caught between a relationship falling apart, a family with strong opinions about whom he should marry, and another woman who understands him rather better than he expected, Chike discovers that navigating romance may be even more complicated than navigating Lagos traffic.Funny, observant and unmistakably Nigerian, Doctor Taxi is a contemporary story about family, love, ambition, entrepreneurship and the courage to discover your own road in life.In Lagos, every passenger has a destination. But sometimes, it is the driver who is still trying to find his.