What the truck? [On ‘Molue’ paintings in Lagos]

The ingeniously/suggestively-titled ‘What the truck?’ ( thank/blame my editor for that title 🙂 ) is my essay/profile on the fading art of bus (‘molue’) paintings in Lagos, Nigeria.

It was published in Issue 1 (turned out to be the only issue ever published) of the defunct Virgin Nigeria’s inflight magazine, WINGS (2008); and awarded the 2009 CNN/Multichoice African Journalism Prize in Arts & Culture

Download WHAT THE TRUCK (pdf)

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