Lekki Market

Lekki is a handicraft, in fact, a souvenir market in Lagos, there are many buyers of visiting Europeans, and especially Chinese. There are such markets in all major cities in Africa, and throughout Africa, some of the assortment is very similar, and the rest is specific to the local market. Therefore, the wider the local part is represented, the more interesting the bazaar is for the author, because he is already quite familiar with the pan-African component.

For example, if you see wooden figurines painted red, they are almost certainly from Kenya. Djembe drums, especially of good quality, come from Senegal, Ghana and Guinea. Although now they are made in Indonesia, but this, of course, is not the same. Congo DR is famous for masks, Congolese masks are also sold in Djibouti. Beadwork - Zulu or Zimbabwean.

And in the Lekki bazaar from the local, Nigerian, what I saw, perhaps, the most interesting Yoruba bronze sculptures. I also liked the original local dolls. So let's take a little walk around the bazaar and look at the sellers and their goods.

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Source: Journal/antoshananarivo

1. The artist draws a portrait of the client from a photograph.

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6. Dolls, no voodoo.

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8. A man paints a chair.

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13. This man immediately asked me: "Are you from Moscow?" Nothing to cover.

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16. A whole flotilla.

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18. They said that the longest is not just a statue, but some specific minister.

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24. Doors and pillars.

25. Fruits, not tangerines, call them African cherries. Sour and fibrous, good in the heat.

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30. A toy, but also not voodoo. You pull the tail, the arms rise.

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34. Local analogue of the vuvuzela.

35. Door.

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39. Beautiful.

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