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The combination of natural light and color has mixed into a mysterious retro aesthetic.
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Meet the unique transportation vehicles in Nigeria.

Lagos is Nigeria's most populated and stressful city with gridlock often quadrupling commuting time for residents.

“As part of his poverty alleviation program, then President of Nigeria Olusegun Obasanjo introduced the Keke Napep popularly known as “Keke” to Nigeria on Nov 6, 2002. And since then, it has become one the most patronized means of transportation in various cities in Nigeria. In the situation where many state governments saw the need to restrict the use of Okada (commercial motorcycle), Keke Napep became a safer alternative in transporting people on short distance journeys. You can’t talk about Nigeria without talking about the Kekes, especially Lagos.”

As a further measure to contain the spread of the Covid-19 (Coronavirus) pandemic within the public transportation pace, the Lagos State government has ordered buses and cabs to maintain 60 percent loading capacity in compliance with the World Health Organisation’s (WHO) social distancing order.

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🌍「Rethinking the role of women in weaving: for future for independence」

Weaving in most of West Africa, East Africa, DRC, and Ethiopia is primarily done by men, while in Berber North Africa and Madagascar, only by women.
In areas such as Arab North Africa, the Sudans and Nigeria, both men and women weave but they mainly weave on different types of looms.
In West Africa, the oldest archaeological evidence so far of cloth production dates to the 800s and 900s, in present-day Nigeria and Mali respectively.
Based on traditional family structure, weaving was once central domestic activity of non-elite women. Women once wove their own garments as well as the textiles that tailors made into men’s garments. Women also made rugs, blankets, and cushions that were the main furnishings of house or tent.
And all this essential production was intended for family use and occasional ceremonial exchange, and was accomplished at home.
Girls used to learn the techniques of wool washing, combing, and spinning as well as the method of weaving properly from their mother’s side.
Then, with the spread of the commercialization of weaving from town to rural areas, as the appearance of wage-labor by women outside the domestic setting, they began to participate in socialization and business participation.
According to a scholar, the “discourse of weaving can be seen as expression of women towards the public,” furthermore, as Lewis H. Morgan once wrote that “ the fabrics of a people unlock their social history. They speak a language which is silent, but yet more eloquent than the written page.”
To some extent, weaving becomes a way and language for women to express themselves.
✨Today, more and more female entrepreneurs develop this "silent expression" into commercial skills and give them the opportunity to gain financial independence.