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Beyond Colour: The Silent Language of a City by Efe Edosio
Beyond Colour: The Silent Language of a City by Efe Edosio
Beyond Colour: The Silent Language of a City by Efe Edosio
Beyond Colour: The Silent Language of a City by Efe Edosio
Beyond Colour: The Silent Language of a City by Efe Edosio
Beyond Colour: The Silent Language of a City by Efe Edosio
Beyond Colour: The Silent Language of a City by Efe Edosio
Beyond Colour: The Silent Language of a City by Efe Edosio
Beyond Colour: The Silent Language of a City by Efe Edosio
Beyond Colour: The Silent Language of a City by Efe Edosio
Photography

Beyond Colour: The Silent Language of a City by Efe Edosio

Where words have failed me, photography has given broad expression, giving form to theimages I see in my head, making the intangible real that I may share with the world. By invitingviewers to see the world through my eyes, I aim to foster a deeper connection between theobserver and the subjects that inhabit my frames, calling them to see the stories I capture andencouraging them to discover new ones. By…

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Postscript: The Last Act of Transaction by Tọ́pẹ́-ẸniỌbańkẹ́ Adégòkè

Now, thinking about my travels as an art of movement and transaction, I recall the Argentinean author, Luis Jorge Borges, who had a habit of visiting libraries in his childhood to read encyclopaedias. Travel, for me, is another way of engaging in this kind of learning. I often imagine travelling is like browsing through a huge library where many books on different subjects are opened before me all at once. This infinite immensity was the constant imagery in my mind as I rode in a van across landscapes, as I travelled in a speedboat, even as I sat in a plane meditating the brilliance of clouds. 

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Going the way of Poetry in Lagos II by Michael Chiedoziem Chukwudera

Now, I am going into Freedom Park through its narrow entrance, with the stage not very far off by my right hand, enlarged photographs of some very famous people like the poets Wole Soyinka and Niyi Osundare, the YPP Presidential candidate Kingsley Moghalu, and a number of people who I do not know, but I’m sure are important people. I find my way around the big compound to the event…

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A JJC in Lagos by Cynthia Adaobi Okpala

In other states, you will see a bold signboard with a welcome greeting as soon as you get to their boundaries. But Lagos will not welcome you with anything like ‘Welcome to Lagos’. What you will find is a brusque statement that is figurative of the unwelcome salutation that awaits your arrival. Something bold and specific, something uninterested in unnecessary friendliness and frivolities, something close to the hustle and bustle,…

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Poetry

Reinvention by Uche Nduka

REINVENTION I The rope of distance broke you sat there reinventing Lagos islands got drenched inside us black crows torched our scars the lessons of attraction the avalanche might actually get kinder wandering in all capes but the death of desire is not what you keep hearing about II Soon all this will be memory stitching yourself into a blue sky, an open door that’s what it says in get-aways…

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Benin City: Half of Everything Once Whole by Dare Dan

When you are riding in a public transport in Benin city and you want to alight, you don’t say ‘Owa o’, ‘E Dey’ or ‘Abeg I Wan Drop’ like you’d have said if you were in Lagos – no, not any of those clichés. In Benin city, you just say ‘Stop!’ The first time I heard someone bellowed ‘Stop’ from a back seat I was shocked until it dawned on…

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Poetry

Lagos Pastiches – Two Poems by Adeeko Ibukun

          Coming to Lagos The landscape is first within. But the stream of crab buses makes calls into spaces, perches for gregarious birds. One laying on you as awareness. The bodies are hurried motion, blending through distance. The metrics on a dioptra are found vocabularies, motioned eloquence articulating the depths and meters; hoary metals troubling through a climb: the arcing ebb towards the Island. Then he is welcomed by the…

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