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Photoblogger Patrick Amanama: Love in Lagos
3July 19th, 2009Collaboration, Contributors“Love in Lagos”
Photographs and Text by Patrick Amanama
NEW PICTURES…..
Lagos means different thing to different people, to some, its a place to make money, a place where we spend most of our creative time in traffic, a place where even the unemployed or homeless are guaranteed a place to lay their head or a three-square meal as long as they put pride aside and beg and to a whole lot of people, Lagos is a place to love…
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BEACH…for the adventurers, fun lovers of water rats, Lagos offers a 300 square kilometer of the Atlantic ocean and is also endowed with creeks and a lagoon. Along the shorelines are different beaches which offers a variety of exciting activities..
Love in Lagos could be funny… At a place called Ojota in Lagos, I was in a bus and right beside the bus, I saw this couple discussing, and it was funny…take a look at the surrounding….not too long, the girl left him and hurriedly sat beside me in the bus, I asked her if that was her husband, she looked at me then smiled and said, “hin dey spin me*”….[wow]
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Its even a common thing to see married couples wearing the same outfit especially on occasions….
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Sometimes, I do things that makes sense and most times I do things out of the box, women are so beautiful especially black women but have you ever stopped to wonder why they carry so much loads? Okay, as African, they are blessed with nice figures….like my late mama would say, don’t try to know whats in a woman’s bag but my question is[was] must they always carry the bags at all? Me, I think its just part of been a woman.
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I have no comment on this pix, I think Eseohe should better explain why she loves this picture, ok, they are young, truly African, he smiles, she’s cool…omG.
.I love Lagos, this is the only place where like I said, the homeless and the jobless can live without much ado….what a way to ease oneself? Answering nature’s call you say….
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MOLUE…..the rock of all ages. The molue is the most popular transport vehicle in Lagos, it might not look new but hey, we just love it, it’s cheap but you have to be really smart to use it, they don’t stop for you to get down at your bus stop or to get into it besides, pick-pocketers use it to pick money and valuables from the ever-rushing passengers.
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KEKEmawa [tricycle] This form of transportation is fast becoming popular in Lagos, they are seen mostly in streets and yes they are cheap but when it rains..haaaaaaa or say a strong wind? lol…..Patrick Amanama.
Patrick Ebi Amanama is a photographer, artist and full-time freelancer living in Lagos, Nigeria.
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Edited by Eseohe Arhebamen*Editor’s notes: I had to ask Patrick what this phrase: “[him] dey spin me” meant. His answer? “Spinin is like askin a girl out 4 friendship,like toasting.”
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