Lagos Still Moves
In this visual essay, photographer Dafe Oboro reminisces about the sartorial traditions his generation of Nigerians grew up with.
In the grainy picture on his WhatsApp profile, award-winning Nigerian photographer and filmmaker Dafe Oboro is wearing a long-sleeved, black and white awning striped shirt three or four sizes larger than his slender, eleven-year-old frame. He’s sporting a grin coy enough to pass as a smirk, but his eyes are trained intensely at the camera. His pose is casual, and he’s holding a toy flip phone to his ear. It’s a picture I instantly related to when I called him to chat about “Lagos Still Moves.”
Like Oboro, I was born in
