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Egg-celent

As a lover for natural light photography, I couldn’t waste the beautiful light hitting my wall so I quickly created a studio and got my Magic egg from fridge, then I created the pictures below.

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My quick studio

Sunlight coming from the back. Ambient light fills egg making image cooler and natural

Sunlig…

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Oh you think black is just a shade? But you merely adopted black. I was born black, molded as black. I don’t see any other colour but black. The shadows betray you because they belong to me I am made of black What are you made of?

MADE OF BLACK Oh you think black is just a shade? But you merely adopted black. I was born black, molded as black.

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  During my trip to Abuja, I thought about the idea of shooting at a Fulani settlement then I met with @rukiejumah and told her about what I had in mind to create. She loved it and planned the shoot. But I didn’t tell her why I wanted to do this shoot.

The recent fights and killings between The Fulani herdsmen and Farmers prompted this shoot.

A lot of people don’t know this but a great deforestation is occurring from the Sahara desert down to Northern Nigeria. The herdsmen are now been forced to come down south to graze their cattle where the major agricultural practice is food farming. Let us not forget that they are both farmers. These fights can be curbed if the government put in place facilities to help these farmers such as Education and technologies, build ranches, provide farmers grants, policies to reduce open grazing, afforestation of the northern Nigeria. We all want the same thing which is being successful but a lot of us forget that success is a measure of how many people are influenced positively by us. I preach love and unity. No matter your tribe or religion, we are one!! OneNigeria!!

Credits

Shot by the amazing @rukiejumah

Assisted by @iykeibeh

Location: Abuja

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H E R D S M A N During my trip to Abuja, I thought about the idea of shooting at a Fulani settlement then I met with @rukiejumah and told her about what I had in mind to create.

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THE REVOLUTION

JUNE 12

25yrs ago, A fair and peaceful election, with MKO Abiola emerging as the winner, was annulled by Rtd. IBB. MKO fought for the actualization of his Mandate but to no avail. He was such a generous Man and sadly gave his life for the people of Nigeria.

In his own words “in 5yrs time, no Nigerian child will go to bed hungry. By God’s grace” 

It’s quite unfortunate, that after 25years, the…

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PÁTÁ

PÁTÁ It’s a yoruba word which means Underwear. PÁTÁ do not only give the state of hygiene of a person, but could be used in the context of secrets Keep your PÁTÁ clean. Images Shot by Victor Onugha Pata by Wilson Onwuka

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Trip to Erin Ijesha waterfall 2mins read

God knows that for a really long time, I have been wanting to travel to one of the most visited tourist site in Nigeria “Erin ijesha waterfall” Finally, I planned this trip with my friend Victor Onugha, who is a photographer. Something was always coming up, so we kept on postponing this trip till Saturday 17th of April, 2018. Honestly I was going to postpone again because I had injured the previous day during my kick boxing training. I had injured my foot and from research done about the tourist site, I had a lot of climbing to do. Erin Ijesha waterfall is one of Nigeria’s most visited tourist site located in Osun state. The waterfall was named after the town it is located in “Erin Ijesha” and also called Olumirin waterfall. What does Erin Ijesha mean? Being a very inquisitive person , I asked most of the elderly people I came in contact with in Osun state but they were all saying “Erin” means Elephant and “Ijesha” is a type of Yoruba dialect. So combining the two doesn’t make so much sense. Okay!! I embarked on this trip with Victor and Atinuke “two love birds” (felt like I was third wheeling) We left Magodo estate at 8:25am to Ojota bus park to board a bus to Ilesa, which cost about 1550naira each. The wait wasn’t so much till the bus filled up and ready to move. Thanks to The lady that preached the Gospel and prayed for a safe trip for us. By the way, she prayed for me singularly that I will be a preacher of the word of God. I sure said Amen The bus got filled in no time and we drove off. The driver was so boring, he didn’t even had a stereo to play music or listen to those lovely lyrically structured Yoruba songs that gets you spraying dollars in Lagos parties popularly known as “Owambe” It was about a 4 hours journey to Ilesa where we met this super amazing cab driver I called “Baba Ilesa” who took us to Erin Ijesha waterfall for a sum of 2000naira. We finally got to Erin Ijesha waterfall. The road to the waterfall was quite terrible but there were construction workers presently working on it, So hopefully that will be rectified in no time. We had to get Baba Ilesa to wait for us till we were done at the waterfall because there were no readily available cabs or buses to take you to your destination after the beautiful tour. So we bargained with Baba and came to an agreement to pay him 6000naira and we didn’t regret this as it started raining heavily before we left the waterfall. He paid for car park which cost 200naira.

At the entrance to the waterfall, we paid a gate fee of 500naira. Also, there is a mandatory fee of 500naira for those with cameras, so we paid for that as well. After registering our tickets, the climb began!! There are about 78 steps to the second level which we successfully conquered. The stairs have no railings and could be very dangerous cause they were really steep. After the second level, there are no steps so you have to use the root of trees to climb. We did this for a while until we heard that there was no water at level 3 or it not as beautiful as level 2 waterfall so we went back down because we had no time to explore so much since we needed to shoot.

After about 2hrs of shooting,it was time to head back to the bus park in Ilesa to board a bus to their capital city “Oshogbo” it was about an hour and half journey to Oshogbo and it cost 600 naira. During the trip to Oshogbo, I checked Hotels.ng to find good hotels in Oshogbo and affordable. I found Royal spring Hotel and we went to the hotel and checked in

Day 2 It was a beautiful and peaceful night, woke up pretty early and I watched this really funny Yoruba movie that was showing. So funny how after I checked out at 11am, the movie was still showing (plix is it big brother yoruba?) Week headed to Nike Art gallery to see some art works. We had the opportunity to see how the popular yoruba attire “Adire” was being manufactured. I was so astonished at how the patterns were created. I will definitely like to try that out sometime. After the visit to Nike’s Art Gallery, we headed to where we can board a bus back to lagos and Ibadan. I will advice you to go with atleast 15,000naira to have a great time at Erin Ijesha waterfalls. Items to carry for this trip: Towel, shower caps for ladies, slippers or hiking shoes, face cap, change of clothing.

click here to watch a short video of my trip to Erin Ijesha waterfalls.

I embarked on another trip to Ibadan. Watch out for my short story on my trip to Ibadan, Oyo state, Nigeria

A TRIP TO ERIN IJESHA WATERFALLS Trip to Erin Ijesha waterfall 2mins read God knows that for a really long time, I have been wanting to travel to one of the most visited tourist site in Nigeria "Erin ijesha waterfall"

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R E F L E C T I O N

R  E  F  L  E  C  T  I  O  N Be who you are and people will appreciate you for that. Have you been in a situation where people think you are proud because you know who you are and when you tell them, they give you replies like “you aren’t  suppose to be the one saying that about yourself” Self appreciation comes first! If you don’t appreciate yourself first then nobody has any obligation to…

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SOLITUDE

    It’s the state or situation of being alone. Being alone doesn’t make you lonely. Man have long stigmatized solitude and considered it incovinient, something to avoid, a form of punishment and can also harm our physical health. Science has always aligned solitude with negative effects but when pursued by choice by an individual is proven therapeutic. This is usually hard or turbulent times in…

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Sport inspired #sportmodel #fitnessmodel #blackmodel #nigerianmodel

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Sophisticated funk #24casual #wilsononwuka #cool #comfort #malebriefs #malemodel #blacklivesmatter

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Sugar

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To feel the heat steaming over your skin, in every pore, and under it, like lightning in the bone. Every muscle, a boiling, rolling weight. The heavy breaths come like some ancient music, from the deep place in your belly and your chest feels like the hull of a great ship, or a whole ocean. You are large. Gigantic. Invincible. Your body pushes past its weakness, past the pain, past the tightness in your arms & the strain in your thighs. Past all discouragement, past all the fear, all the noise - and nothing else matters but your beating heart. By J.S.L

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