The culture of visiting the museum was revitalised last week when the photographs of the Lagos Account of Nigeria Protest against Fuel Subsidy Removal were exhibited at the Exhibition Gallery of the National Museum, Onikan, Lagos from January 10 to 17, 2013. The exhibition was a visual commentary on the nationwide, if not international, protest staged by angry Nigerians in reaction to the Federal Government's decision to stop paying subsidy on Premium Motor Spirit (PMS) on January 1, 2012.
The creative order of displaying the pictures clearly documents the protest in three episodes namely, The Call, The Movement and The Assembly. In his remarks at the formal opening of the exhibition, the curator, Tam Fiofori scored the photographer, Kunle Ogunfuyi high on his sense of social responsibility. He described the 52 pictures on display as "landmark visual documents that enrich the political history and the narrative of nurturing democracy in Nigeria." He coined the "P-words" as an artistic formula derived from the images on the protest to describe the various dimensions that the protest took. The "P-words" are Protest, Political Rally, Party and Performance. Fiofori commended the photographer on his bravery in the face of present-day hazards of taking pictures on Nigerian city streets.
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