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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.
Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari addresses the nation on a live televised broadcast on Oct. 22. (Bayo Omoboriowo/AP) Some things never change in Nigeria. Police and military brutality, the terrible state of governance, the ubiquity of corruption, extreme poverty and inequality, unreliable power supply go in an endless cycle, like the year's seasons. Nigerian elections are like gambling. We blindly toss a coin into the air - with no guarantee of what we get.
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