Many do not see them. But they see you. They watch you. At the gate of every, residential estate, building, facility, there is an askari stationed, armed with a baton and a whistle, the omnipresent face of security in the city. Watchmen are generally stereo-typed as lower class workers from disadvantaged backgrounds with limited…
Month: March 2014
Finding Fela
I had arrived in Lagos courtesy of the Africa Magic Viewers Choice Awards ceremony, in my capacity as a nominee in a collaborative work of art. It was a tight schedule, practically in an out and one day in between for a gala award event. With stories of Lagos legendary traffic, it seemed a bad…
Adongo: More Than Just A Big Guy
As Kenyans gush over the meteoric rise of Lupita Nyong’o from the fringes to the helm of acting glory, numerous testimonials have cropped up in the press and each pretty much says the same thing. She was focused. She worked hard and followed through. Or as someone else aptly put it, “the preparation determines the outcome”….