“VKMobileLifeNigeria”

The Volkskrant (in Dutch) will publish the PAPA photo story Mobile Life Nigeria in the coming months. PAPA photographers in Nigeria are specially commissioned to shoot extra material. Here you find the extra material. Mobile Life Nigeria: Everything that does not work in Nigeria 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. Have a look at Mobile Life Lagos under galleries on this website.

Water business

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

Vegetable Hawker

Abuja -  A man sells vegetables on a wheel barrow along the street…
Godswill Ayemoba – VKMobileLifeNigeria

Sweet Oranges

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

Roasted meat seller in Lagos.

Lagos -  Roasted meat seller in Lagos.…
Andrew Esiebo – VKMobileLifeNigeria

Mobile ice cream seller.

Lagos -  Mobile ice cream seller.…
Andrew Esiebo – VKMobileLifeNigeria

Mobile cobbler

Lagos -  This is a cobbler, He does his trade on the streets looking for clients while walking.…
Tuoyo Omagba – VKMobileLifeNigeria

Fish seller

Lagos -  Smoked fish seller in Obalende , Lagos , Nigeria …
Andrew Esiebo – VKMobileLifeNigeria

Buy Banana

Abuja -  A woman sell banana in a mechanic/spare parts dealers settlement area in Abuja…
Godswill Ayemoba – VKMobileLifeNigeria

Street News stands

Lagos -  People gathering to have a glance or read of the day’s news at one of the many newspaper stands in Lagos. …
Andrew Esiebo – VKMobileLifeNigeria

Ripe Pear

Abuja -  A little girl sells Avocado Pear at the scene of an outdoor party using the opportunity to admire dancers…
Godswill Ayemoba – VKMobileLifeNigeria

Mobile ice cream seller

Lagos -  Mobile ice cream seller.…
Andrew Esiebo – VKMobileLifeNigeria

Mobile business man

Lagos -  Vlisco is the name of the Dutch fabric a lot of the beautiful dresses are made of.…
Israel Ophori – 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…
Andrew Esiebo – VKMobileLifeNigeria

Snack in a bucket

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

Orange Fruit Hawker

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

Mobile confectionery seller

Lagos -  Mobile confectionery seller in Lagos …
Andrew Esiebo – VKMobileLifeNigeria

Groundnut Seller

Abuja -  A young girl sells bottled groundnut at a gathering of people celebrating.…
Godswill Ayemoba – 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

Shoe accessories hawker

Lagos -  Shoe accessories hawker …
Andrew Esiebo – VKMobileLifeNigeria

Moble cafe

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

Mobile confectionery hawker

Lagos -  Mobile confectionery hawker in Lagos…
Andrew Esiebo – VKMobileLifeNigeria

Garment Mender

Abuja -  A man carries his sewing machine on his shoulder moving from street to street calling out to residents who have garment to mend.…
Godswill Ayemoba – 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