To be a man.
I have been putting questions about prevalent thoughts on masculinity to people we have met over the last 36 days of the road trip. Although the responses have been in many ways predictable, I [...]
Day: 19 June 2016
Men Who Wait on the Street
Walking on the Lokoja-Okenne road, I saw men with shovels and hoes, waiting. Only seven in the morning, they dallied beside the road. What moves me to remember them? The growing number of idle [...]
After the Full Stop
I think a lot about how most of our work on the trip has happened in the space between preconceived notions and freshly acquired perceptions. This space—referred to by Emeka as ‘the bracketed [...]