Participating Artists Press Agency
Friday 6th of December 2024 – page 1
Everything that doesn’t work in Lagos – and that is a lot – is made operative by the people themselves. The shopkeepers and craftsmen are mobile: if you want to buy bread, have your trousers repaired or need a haircut, you just walk outside and the vendors and craftsmen circle around you.As the electricity works only ten or twenty per cent of the time and brown water pours from the taps, the electricity and the water supply are made mobile too. If you want to work on one of your blogs, you go out into the street to find a cart with jerry cans filled with diesel. You start your generator, get your computer running and off you go. If you want to wash yourself, get the boy with water from the streets to fill up the container in your house. Take a bucket of water from the container to your bathroom and indulge yourself in throwing the fresh water with a saucepan over your body.
Thursday 7th of February 2013
Lagos -
The web designer chose a nice empty wall to advertise his craft.…
Eremina Jumbo –
Lagos Lab
Lagos -
Residents of Obalende lagos, fetching water. Even Lagos is a city surrounded by the sea and Lagos it homes of the millions of lagosians lacks portable water. As such…
Andrew Esiebo –
VKMobileLifeNigeria
Lagos -
You can receive the service in the street or invite the craftsman into your home. ‘Northern Nigerians doing pedicures and manicures for the public without knowing the danger of distributing…
Israel Ophori –
Lagos Lab
Abuja -
A woman tries to do brisk business on the street as she sells buns to passersby at a bus stop within the Abuja Metropolis…
Godswill Ayemoba –
VKMobileLifeNigeria
Abuja -
A young man hawks Oranges along the streets of Abuja carrying the fruits on a wide tray which serves as his mobile shop…
Godswill Ayemoba –
VKMobileLifeNigeria
Lagos -
Mobile confectionery hawker in Lagos…
Andrew Esiebo –
VKMobileLifeNigeria
Lagos -
In a society (Nigeria) where dependency of energy is vested on the government. Fortunately or unfortunately this leader have failed in creating this energy dependency making million of Nigerian to…
Andrew Esiebo –
Lagos Lab
Lagos -
A sea of street hawkers and vehicles, every hawker trying to sell their goods ranging from books to toys etc. Sometimes people leave their homes with money in anticipation of…
Tuoyo Omagba –
Lagos Lab
Lagos -
Lagos is city that doesn’t sleep. One of the many mobile café that sell coffee to keep the sense of the teeming mobile people going in Lagos. …
Andrew Esiebo –
VKMobileLifeNigeria
Lagos -
The mobile shopkeepers and craftsmen look so well dressed and clean. How do they do that? ‘This is a girl who is supposed to be in school but is out…
Tuoyo Omagba –
Lagos Lab
Lagos -
Vlisco is the name of the Dutch fabric a lot of the beautiful dresses are made of.…
Israel Ophori –
VKMobileLifeNigeria
Lagos -
Some plants and a notice on a piece of plywood. This way you can open up several shops and businesses at the same time. …
Lino Hellings –
Lagos Lab
Lagos -
Roasted meat seller in Lagos.…
Andrew Esiebo –
VKMobileLifeNigeria
Lagos -
Life in Lagos is completely mobile. Everything that doesn’t work in Lagos – and that is a lot – is made operative by the people themselves. The shopkeepers and…
Lino Hellings –
Lagos Lab
Lagos -
The barber uses two small generators to ensure his business goes uninterrupted by power failures. Generators are one of Nigeria’s main exports. Despite the government’s failure to assure electricity, users…
Andrew Esiebo –
Migrationpapa
Lagos -
Bread hawkers in Lagos used to go around with butter or margarine; some people who buy the bread would like to have it cut in half with butter richly spread…
Toye Gbade –
Lagos Lab
Abuja -
A young man moves with a bucket in hand to serve as a makeshift stand at his destination for his orange business…
Godswill Ayemoba –
VKMobileLifeNigeria
Abuja -
A little girl sells Avocado Pear at the scene of an outdoor party using the opportunity to admire dancers…
Godswill Ayemoba –
VKMobileLifeNigeria
Lagos -
Mobile confectionery seller in Lagos …
Andrew Esiebo –
VKMobileLifeNigeria
Lagos -
Nearly every Nigerian man supports at least one international club and hardly any of them support Nigerian teams. Every now and then they argue about whose club is better. Wearing…
Toye Gbade –
Lagos Lab