Nigeria: Memories Re-Visited At Badagry Festival

4 August 2011

According to Chinua Achebe, foremost Novelist and Africa's Eagle on the Iroko, a people who do not know where the rain began to beat them, would not know where to stop and dry their bodies.

This age long aphorism from one of Africa's original thinkers would be found to have informed and shape the tenor and colour and texture of the annual Badagary festival.

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