Wednesday, 29 October 2014

The Return of The Girls

Last week, at Falomo Roundabout in Lagos, my car was almost hit by a dirty Danfo bus. As I expertly dodged the ochre-and-black stripes commuter bus, my gaze was drawn to a large group of photographs which surrounded the traffic circle like sentries. Numbering a hundred or more, they depicted a face with a red question mark at its centre, and a name...

Monday, 13 October 2014

London

The first time I visited the UK, I recalled the story of a Nigerian boy who upon setting his eyes upon the city of London for the first time, asked innocently, " Na the London be dis? Why dem no paint am? " The first thing I noticed on the ride from the airport to my hostess' home, was the old buildings, some dating as far back as 2,000 years....

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