By 10 a.m., on a Monday morning, Kemi, a trader at Balogun Market in Lagos, has already lived through half a dozen national crises. Standing behind her stall, she scrolls through her phone between customers. A message about a kidnapping circulates through a WhatsApp group. Moments later, another alert announces a fuel price increase. Before she has finished discussing that news with neighbouring traders, a celebrity controversy dominates social media. By lunchtime, she has moved from anxiety to anger, from frustration to amusement, and back again. Business continues as normal, but something has been spent along the way. Not money, not time, but attention, concern and collective emotional energy.