Lagos. Again.

Every time I go to Lagos I am amazed at some of the strange small things I see. To give you some idea here are some more recent examples.

It seems common here for wear clothing that is imprinted with any strange combination of logos and slogans taken (stolen) from around the world. However, I’m not sure if one young man was fully aware of the origin of the shirt he was wearing. Ok, he must have been aware, but if he was, why was he wearing it?

He was wearing a bright orange, seemingly prison issue shirt that had in huge letters across the back "Los Angeles County Jail"

Ok I saw one very clever advertising scheme by a slightly haggard looking old man in a motor park somewhere in Lagos. He was selling insecticide spray or something similar. His strategy – he had collected and glued 200 cockroaches to a big wooden board which he had hanging around his neck (that went almost to the floor). I know there were 200 because he even had them lined up in neat rows.

Lagos doesn’t have a lot of free space. Nor it seems public amenities. So lately I have seen more than one or two pay-per-use toilets. This itself is not remarkable. What is interesting is some of the slogans I’ve seen including - "pay-as-you-shit" and other such imaginative adverts