I was opportuned to visit the community on Friday, 7th of July 2018 and it wasn’t what I expected, have been hearing a lot of remarks
If you go there you will be robbed
The community is not accessible
You must with an elderly person to visit
You must see and pay the community head before doing anything
You will get there by water
You must settle the area boys before doing anything and so on.
As luck would have it, it wasn’t anything like that…in my own opinion I would say there are 2 parts to this community
* The nice(tush) part
* The slum(no hard feelings)
On getting to the community (mind you I got there by the means of a 3-legged transport popularly known as MARWA) and I went with the mentality of me going to a dangerous place, I was scared, naive,determined, psyched and I was prepared for the worst, once I entered the community I kept my phone in my bag(anything can happen) but the view that welcomed me was different from the one in my head, it was just a normal community like every other community, markets, schools, companies, nice buildings and so on.
We entered the community and didn’t know what to do at first, so we walked to a nice and calm looking thug and he asked us to meet the community head( baale in Yoruba) before doing anything so we won’t be harassed, we walked up to the man and he gave us go ahead without taking a dime. We went back to the calm looking thug and he called a canoe guy for us, that one saw JJC and he said we have to pay #5000 for the canoe ride to and fro, we were like what happen and it was hard having a conversation with the guy cos he doesn’t understand Yoruba or English and I don’t understand his language or French, I only understood the price he was saying #5000
The next canoe came and it was the one we boarded after agreeing to a price of #400 to and fro and the guy was able to communicate in English to some extent unlike the other canoe guy and we met a white man there only God knows how much the man was charged.
These set of children were abusing us
Approaching the school we encountered a little traffic (who knew there was traffic on water) on our way to the school, getting to the school, The name of the school is WHANYINNA which means LOVE the children were on break and the kids were just staring like who are this strangers, we walked up to the man in charge cos their headmaster wasn’t around but we were allowed to take pictures and we went back.
On our way going we saw a girl paddling herself in a bowl(creative right) and it was a nice journey.
The reason of me going on this trip is to conquer my fear of water and I guess I have….
Meet my canoe man, he’s nice, calm and understanding
And here’s their bathroom, literally everything is going back to the water..the dirt, their bathing water, even waters from their kitchen are poured inside the water more reason why the environment is dirty
Here’s the thing do that one thing you scared of and if you have a lot start somewhere just like I did cos am scared of quite a number of things, just take a calculated risk and have fun.
Real, free and enjoy
KeshaPitt QueenOfMgmt
July 15, 2018I love the pics in your post! Beautiful people!
theadunni__
July 15, 2018Thank you.. Glad you liked it..
ajumoko idris
July 17, 2018Gracias Aduni yoursre going places m…I fell in love with the story and I feel like going with you soon
theadunni__
July 17, 2018No problem but we can go somewhere else tho.. There are a lot of places to go in lag
anna
July 18, 2018Love thw photos and thanks for the info!
theadunni__
July 18, 2018Glad you enjoyed it
theaduni
October 11, 2018glad you enjoyed the post