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Wedding Colors and other Photos

 

Photograph by Robin Hammond, National Geographic, December 27, 2014, Source

 

 

In Nigeria it’s common to ask guests to wear color-coordinated outfits, called aso ebi, at social events, such as this wedding at the Yoruba Tennis Club in Lagos.

 

Picture of guests adorned in purple at a wedding in Lagos, Nigeria

 

Photograph by Robin Hammond

Thousands live and work in the sawmill district on mainland Lagos, a patchwork of workshops and shanties that twice in recent years has been devastated by fires. The towers where Nigeria’s wealth is made loom across Lagos Lagoon behind the Third Mainland Bridge.

 

Photograph by Robin Hammond

Vendors hawk goods at one of many markets on Lagos Island, demonstrating the entrepreneurial fervor that has made Nigeria’s economy Africa’s most vibrant.

 

Photograph by Robin Hammond

Girls wash dishes and boil peanuts to sell at a decaying housing complex, one of many cheaply built, low-cost neighborhoods constructed by the Lagos state government more than three decades ago.

 

See more Photos from the January 2015 feature story First City.”

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