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In the grainy picture on his WhatsApp profile, award-winning Nigerian photographer and filmmaker Dafe Oboro is wearing a long-sleeved, black and white awning striped shirt three or four sizes larger than his slender, eleven-year-old frame. He’s sporting a grin coy enough to pass as a smirk, but his eyes are trained intensely at the camera. His pose is casual, and he’s holding a toy flip phone to his ear.
In Africa’s largest and fastest-growing city, lockdown restrictions are being eased from today – figures from the city’s creative scene share their journal entries from isolation TextClaire Marie HealyPhotographyDafe OboroStylingDaniel ObasiIllustrationCallum Abbott 4May 2020 We’re living through unprecedented times – the current, very unusual alteration to the way we live life right now calls for solidarity, togetherness, and communication.
One of the most notable and promising emerging filmmakers in Nigeria, Dafe Oboro was born in one of the country’s largest slum areas, and now documents the communities and youth culture flourishing on the streets he grew up on in the sprawling city of Lagos. “I am most proud of how far I have come as an artist,” he says, “from being that little boy who dreamt of becoming something much bigger than myself, to where I am now.
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