Friday, November 03, 2006

Picture from outside a Lagos mosque..

Whether this image is a fake or not, what is shocking is that we can imagine it to be true. In other words, we can imagine a world where the bonds of trust in society have broken down so much that muslims at the mosque might want to steal each other’s footwear.

Lagos
: a city of absurd tragic-comic contradictions in a country of enormous tragi-comic proportions.

7 comments:

Anonymous,  9:17 am  

There is an old story from back in the days of Babangida that some one stole one (just one) of his slippers from outside the Mosque during prayers

Tunde

Akin 10:16 am  

I think this is just to make sure that the owner does not end up putting his feet into slippers that are not a matching pair and to help him identify his slippers from the multitude of footwear on a busy prayer day.

The security aspect is just a bonus, the trust aspect is a tad too cynical. Give humanity a bit of slack, come on. Jeremy.

ijebuman 11:05 am  

LOL very funny pic, I agree with Akin. I doubt if it's for security because its so easy to remove the padlock if you really want to steal the slippers (you simply take out the rubber strands)

Dotun 11:55 am  

i doubt the security aspect too, afterall you can easily pick that brand of slippers on the streets of lagos, almost for free.

Anonymous,  2:38 pm  

I love the philosophical implications of this picture: poems, dissertations, and white papers could be written a-plenty.

Nkem 4:15 pm  

People's King James Versions get stolen all the time in churches, armed robbers steal from churches, what's so outrageous about someone securing his Friday best flip-flops?

zeyi 6:00 pm  

That was just too funny!

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