My Africa is: Lagos Chronicles
A documentary series exposing a balanced side of Africa premiering with a birds eye view of Africa’s most populous city, Lagos, Nigeria.
Wecyclers
Lagos has a booming population of 21 million, however the infrastructure available to Lagosians does not match the boom, leaving the densely populated city short of various government services including garbage disposal. Walking through a neigborhood in Lagos, you will stumble upon overflowing garbage heaps mostly made up of plastic waste.
Enter Bilikiss Abiola, a Cartier’s Women Initiative Award finalist who is teaching communities in Lagos including Surulere and Ebute-metta the value of these plastic products, and what they stand to gain from collecting and recycling them.
My Africa Is is a documentary series project by Nosarieme Garrick (Nigerian) and myself, Kathleen Bomani (Tanzanian). We started our journey in June of last year with a kickstarter campaign that failed dismally.
But even without Kickstarter funding, we still had our mission: to give a more balanced view of Africa by telling stories throught the eyes and lives of young locals making a difference in their communites.
After a year, we have managed to transform our concept beyond a prototype (thanks to 30 individual donors who donated to our paypal fund) to actually filming three shorts on three dynamic individuals who live, breathe and thrive in Lagos. We present to you The Lagos Chronicles!
What has us most excited about our project is the collaborative effort behind the Lagos Chronicles (which we aim to duplicate with each location we cover in the future). The production companies who worked on the Lagos Chronicles, Davies Media and 37th State,are both based in Lagos and run by under 35 year olds. We also collaborated with local Lagosian artists who serve as our soundtrack on the videos, Burna Boy, Show Dem Camp and the jazzy Temi DollFace, and lastly, our promotional artwork was created by none other but a local and uber talented Lagosian artist, Karo Apokiere of the Seek Project.
As Nosa and I are both based in the diaspora, I truly and wholesomely believe we are revolutionizing how we in the diaspora interact and collaborate with our counterparts on the continent, and nothing can be more exciting.
The Floating School, a solution from Lagos to the world.
Our second installment of the Lagos Chronicles features Kunle Adeyemi,a nigerian born architect, visionary, urbanist and founder of Nle Works, an architecture, design and urbanism firm focused on developing cities.
We dove into Lagos’s largest settlement Makoko. A floating community that has been a hot button issue in the urban development conversation. Kunle Adeyemi,designer of a solar powered floating school prototype for the flood prone coastal neighborhood allowed us to come with, as he finished up the first phase of the school.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cSnQfeIYMWI
Thru Lakin’s Lense
Our last installment of the Lagos Chronicles features Lakin Ogunbanwo, a daring and uber talented fashion photographer visually pushing the envelope in a conservative setting that is, Nigeria.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PCpn3cgQvno
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