“Lagos”

Domestic Shoe Rack

Lagos -  For the latest in space-saving furniture, your home can have an economical shoe rack like this with enough room for all the family’s footwear. Simply remove window air-conditioning unit (if not broken already) and there you have it - a ready-made space for slippers, sandals, even the odd lightbulb or pair of scissors.In better developed countries, people would perhaps go to the store and buy something ready-made for this purpose. This is an example of the enforced inventiveness that people in developing countries like Nigeria display when finding solutions to the-everpresent problem of LACK; lack of money, materials, or affordable household goods.Lack is balanced here by enforced or accidental inventiveness, and these solutions are often ecologically sustainable. This is recognized even in the West in this era of climate change and global economic hardship. Day-to-day life in developing countries reveals much in minor details like this “shoe rack”.
Folarin Shasanya – Lagos Lab

Diesel retailers

Lagos -  One of the many diesel retailers in streets of Lagos. Like many other cities in Nigeria, Lagos suffers from acute shortage of electricity power. As such many organization and…
Andrew Esiebo – VKMobileLifeNigeria

Diesel retailers

Lagos -  One of the many diesel retailers in streets of Lagos. Like many other cities in Nigeria, Lagos suffers from acute shortage of electricity power. As such many organization and homes…
Andrew Esiebo – VKMobileLifeNigeria

Diesel retailers

Lagos -  One of the many diesel retailers in streets of Lagos. Like many other cities in Nigeria, Lagos suffers from acute shortage of electricity power. As such many organization and homes…
Andrew Esiebo – VKMobileLifeNigeria

Creativity and Survival

Lagos -  One of the Hausa new comers at Obalende – Lagos filling jerrycans with water from a private owned borehole to supply around Lagos. Though, Lagos is surrounded by oceans, seas…
Andrew Esiebo – Migrationpapa

call the welder

Lagos -  Call the welder, call the plumber, call the carpenter, call the electrician etc. Other craftsmen advertise in the same way. Sometimes they make a small installation to show off their…
Lino Hellings – Lagos Lab

Brotherhood

Lagos -  Shehu Saleh, 30 years arrived a cobbler arrived Lagos from Katsina ten years ago on invitation of his elder brother who is a business man in Lagos. He came to…
Andrew Esiebo – Migrationpapa

Batteries Not Included

Lagos -  On the edges of the Lagos lagoon near Lekki, one of Lagos’ wealthiest areas and a “gated community” seemingly trying to isolate itself from the rest of the city, a…
Folarin Shasanya – Lagos Lab

Art in a Crowded Place

Lagos -  Around one of Lagos’ many iconic statues (this one representing the Eyo, the symbol of the city), a typical scene unfolds here at an intersection between Lagos Island and Dolphin…
Folarin Shasanya – Lagos Lab

Demonstration of Craze (Democracy)

Lagos -  Democratic resolution of dispute about bus fares and change given turning into a demonstration of craziness. Babasola…
Babasola Bamiro – Lagos Lab

Commuters restaurant

Lagos -  Here is a local restaurant running from under a bridge in Obalende, one of the busiest motor parks in lagos. It basically caters for the traffic of commuters daily plying…
Toye Gbade – Flyoverpapa

Buy your rack

Lagos -  The street salesman in this shot is trying hard to convince the man in the vehicle why he needs to buy a shoe rack from him. Check out his shoes…
Tuoyo Omagba – Lagos Lab

Breadrolls

Lagos -  You do not have to starve in the traffic jam.…
Tuoyo Omagba – Lagos Lab

Barbershop, Lagos

Lagos -  One of the many barbershops that dots over the city of lagos. It is not a place only for hair dressing but a social hub where people from all walks…
Andrew Esiebo – VKMobileLifeNigeria

Daily betting

Lagos -  A board with winning numbers for daily lotteries, known as Baba Ijebu, at Obalende. Although there are rarely many winners, this form of gambling is rampant in Obalende, especially among…
Andrew Esiebo – Migrationpapa

Commercial motor bikes

Lagos -  Young boys sitting on of the many commercial motor bikes also known as Okada became visible on the road in Lagos as community transportation has now come to be one…
Andrew Esiebo – Migrationpapa

Business of legiums

Lagos -  A young boy who recently migrated from the nothern Nigeria to Lagos is assisting and learning the business of legiums at the Iddo terminus market. The market is popular for…
Andrew Esiebo – Migrationpapa

Bread hawker in Lagos.

Lagos -  Bread hawker in Lagos.…
Andrew Esiebo – VKMobileLifeNigeria

At the end of the day

Lagos -  With a handfull of cables and a lot of skills Toye made it work on the slow and unreliable internet connection we have here. Apart from being a good observer…
Lino Hellings – Lagos Lab

Creativity and Survival1

Lagos -  Well, the two photos I will send today deal with water. I will like to put the photos under the titled borrow from a sociologist Annalisa Butticci called Creativity and…
Andrew Esiebo – Migrationpapa

Children Trekking

Lagos -  Children trekking home from school because their school bus couldn’t get through the traffic. Tuoyo Omagba…
Tuoyo Omagba – Lagos Lab

Brothers in arms

Lagos -  One brother leads another on the unforgiving streets of Lagos.…
Zemaye Okediji – Lagos Lab

Beehive overpass

Lagos -  The Obalende Flyover busstation, mosques, several small kiosks, mobile phone shops, petrol station etc. At the end of the day it is a very large market. Lagos Nigeria Toye Gbade…
Toye Gbade – Flyoverpapa

Artists/painters of trucks and busses

Lagos -  The five of us where just about leaving for Lagos Mainland when a group of artists/painters of trucks and busses arrived. AAF is running a project with these ‘grass roots’…
Lino Hellings – Lagos Lab