Tag: Lagos

  • Based on the soul-searching memoir by Scots Makar Jackie Kay, adapted by Tanika Gupta, and directed by Dawn Walton.

  • Furo Wariboko, a young Nigerian, awakes the morning before a job interview to find that he’s been transformed into a white man. In this condition he plunges into the bustle of Lagos to make his fortune. With his red hair, green eyes, and pale skin, it seems he’s been completely changed. Well, almost. There is…

  • Two Cities: Guangzhou/Lagos Nokoko Institute of African Studies Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada Volume 2 (Fall 2011) pages 174-197 Wendy Thompson Taiwo, Assistant Professor of African American Studies San José State University, San Jose, California I was in Nigeria in May, the year I turned twenty-nine. And aside from the few hours of electricity per day,…