Paradise Lost

Paradise Lost: Revisiting the Niger Delta - photographs by George Osodi are on display @ the Centre for Contemporary Arts, Lagos, until May 3, 2008.

• See report and images from the exhibition's 29th March opening on Artspeak Africa. And there's more on George Osodi elsewhere on the blog.
• Venue: Centre for Contemporary Arts, 9 McEwen Street, Queens Street, Sabo, Lagos (opp Methodist Church, Herbert Macaulay Street), Nigeria.

Up the Gangirwal

Scene from a just concluded expedition up Mount Gangirwal in Nigeria, near the border with Cameroon. Here pairs of boots enjoy the ride as bare feet are put to work as the group crosses a river before confronting the mountain. Jide Bello (lawyer and culture enthusiast) is in the foreground. That figure on the left channelling Gandhi is Bibi Bakare-Yusuf of Cassava Republic Press.

See Jeremy Weate's posts on the hike over at Naijablog (see also, 'Mountain of Death'). Related post here.
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Image © Jeremy Weate