Peter Nwoji..bros mi....thought this might interest you as the article touches a bit of our earlier conversation on provision of affordable housing for the poor people...etc..etc... Some years ago, a British filmmaker discovered an exotic site in Nigeria: An entire community of human beings subsisting on mountains of refuse. And not in some remote state, but in Lagos, the countrys commercial nerve centre - a city of fast cars, luxury shops and sleek folk, with women in Brazilian hair weaves and men in Ferragamo shoes. Shortly after the Welcome to Lagos series aired on the BBC in April 2010, Nigerians around the world went berserk. There was this colonialist idea of the noble savage which motivated the programme, Nobel laureate Wole Soyinka said of the documentary. It was patronising and condescending, he added. Nigerias High Commissioner to the UK Dalhatu Tafida described it as a calculated attempt to bring Nigeria and its hard-working people to international odium and scorn. Online forums also went ablaze. They are giving us a bad image, many Nigerians fumed.
Posted on: Thu, 26 Jun 2014 18:28:58 +0000
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