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Caco
Day 1 in Lagos – setting up our pop-up design studio. 2 weeks on the ground with a strong local crew, so much to learn, to much to do. Highlight? Taking an okada across town to pick up supplies and...
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The Return
That moment post-interview, when the thing that stands between the team and sleep is the need to review the session’s data, a debrief with the rest of the team, and a little matter of navigating the...
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Street. Shave.
In Sabo Market 100 Naira (50 euro cents) buys you a fresh razor, the subtlest fingers south of the equator and 20 minutes of head-down, clean shave. The post-shave ‘tonic’ will delight those who live...
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Bait and Switch, By Golly
Free AutoCAD Training (Accept Jesus Today) at Lagos’s computer village.
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Police & Thieves
Been enjoying some late night/early morning walks through the urban landscape that is distinctly Lagos – dark streets puntuated up by small groups huddled around paraffin lamps taking in some late...
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Tsunami, the Movie
In a country where a music video is shot in a day, and a movie can be shot in two – a collation of news clips on the Japan earthquake/tsunami makes for a decent disaster movie. Yoruba version no less.
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Shifting Beans
The crew slips into the local grain market in Ibadan – a sprawling throng of stallholders and hawkers selling grains, vegetables, heavy-earthy yams, to conduct a series of interviews. They hustle, we...
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The ‘Name’ Card
Inspired partly by Herr Siebert’s printed name cards, and partly by the availability of the moveable type in this Ibadan shanty town community – decided to make some old-school name cards. In the age...
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Wheel Rim Grill
Stoves made from recycled wheel rims in front of this Ibadan grocery store – 3 legs welded onto the rim.
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Welcome to the Ghetto
“Welcome to the ghetto.” A half-day spent in one of Ibadan’s tight shanty town communities, sniffing out sufficiently conducive contexts and people to conduct interviews. The game centers you can hear...
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UBICOMP Links
The title uberrima fides refers to the legal doctrine covering insurance contracts – where all parties must enter into the contract making a full declaration of the material facts – in “utmost good...
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Aspiration at the Edge of the Internet
The house on the left might look like a humble poster to you, and a slightly cheesy one at that, but actually its significance belies its humble form. I’ve seen this same design in Nigeria, Kenya,...
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Team: The Hustler
The team doesn’t normally require a full time hustler, but it does need people who know how to hustle: that can talk their way through security check-points or sweet talk customs officials; negotiate...
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