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International Airport Road, Ikeja Lagos, Nigeria
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There's no place like Nigeria
... was very busy filled with cars and drivers who are recklessly overtaking each other. It feels quite heavy looking around with old cars and vans that belong nowhere but the junk. Vendors on the street, they just want to live. We passed on this long bridge and as i looked to my right, i saw the slums. Their houses had bamboo legs and was built on the water. There were definitely more than a thousand people living here. They had small manual boats that they use to get to the land. ...
Smoked Fish and Children
... many others I have met here, and in Lagos in general they appear to be completely happy. I found myself leaving the area, uplifted by the people I had met but ever so slightly depressed at the conditions I had seen people living in. I also found myself judging myself and my kind, oyimbo: pretty much every person who lives in western culture with only one television and have the nerve to use the word poverty to describe their living conditions.
I ...
French + Yoruba
... airport but I didn't talk to him at all in all the chaos. He was really nice and showed me pictures of his family, and showed me a picture of myself that he'd had since I was little (me in some seriously fly Oshkosh overalls). He said he was looking forward to seeing my dad since they haven't really spoken since the trip we took to *****ia when I was a toddler. He said that he felt like my coming was a blessing and things like that, which was really nice ...
With a little help from my (new Nigerian) friends.
... Milan.
Everyone was taking strain on our 3 hours of sleep so we headed back to the Southern Sun where Tosin had a power nap while we watched some cricket and popped out to the local Ikoyi club to sample some local ‘braaivleis’ - In *****ia everything is a Kebab.. they put everything on sticks and place them over the fire. The lamb and beef was awesome with a strong pepper rub taste. Then we got brave ...
Efo Riro
(pronounced Eef-oh Ree-row)
Way back when Todd and I first arrived we ate a local delicacy called Edikanikong with Pounded Yam. I was shown how to cook it (sans cow foot) tonight.
Efo means vegetables and Riro mean stirred.
Ingredients
Local Spinach (Soko (sho-koo)
Palm Oil
Dried Fish
Dried Shrimp
Stock Fish
Stock ...



