I had to go back several times to 0:14 to see if it was really unusual. I get it of course, but probably watching 20 times I would have never noticed it.
The thing is -- over time I'm not sure people will care. People will adapt to these kinds of strange things and normalize them -- as long as they are compelling visually. The thing about that scene is it looks weird only if you think about it. Otherwise it seems like the sort of pan you would see in some 30 second commercial for coffee or something.
If anything it tells a story: going from market, to people talking as friends, to the giant world (of Lagos).
Though I'm not sure your point here -- outside of America -- in Asia and Africa -- these sorts of markets mixed in with skyscrapers are perfectly normal. There is nothing unusual about it.