Lagos the Original Southern Lady of Means. 4th Festival Colloquium for Lagos at 50
Before crude oil became cool, that is, before it became the chief revenue source for the Nigerian government, there was Lagos. Circa 1905, when the ‘geographical expression’ now called Nigeria was administered in three separate regions—Southern Nigeria, Northern Nigeria, and Colony of Lagos—it was Lagos…
Lagos Colonial Secretariat, 121 years after. A Fresh Case for Urban Regeneration and Renewal
In the heart of Lagos, Africa’s most populous city is a building which is over a 100 year old. The former colonial secretariat, a building that was the main attraction of old Marina and Broad Street, an area that used to be the power bloc…
The Beauty and Ruins of the 1914 Amalgamation Building.
Recently, while on a research for deep cultural content, along the shores of Opobo kingdom in Rivers State, about the legendary King Jaja of Opobo and the adaptation of the Igbo language by the people of Opobo Kingdom as opposed to their indigenous ‘Ubani‘ language,…