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After the Bulldozers

Africa Is a Country Podcast
African Five-a-Side Podcast

After the Bulldozers

By
Sean Jacobs

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Beautifully shot short film about the fate of 10,000 residents displaced after a thriving market in Ajelogo, a neighborhood in Lagos, Nigeria, was destroyed by local authorities. The film is told through the perspective of one of the residents. The director is Charles “Stretch” Ledford, a University of Miami communications student and working photographer. (Be sure to also check out his work on Overtown, a black working class neighborhood of Miami.)

Via Jeremy Weate.

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