Cassavamans Blog

...there is a mass of cars and motos. The rules are: be fast and watch out. Maybe some of the people forgot the part watch out. Almost every car has had a crash once. However, the cars are old anyway, but at least they roll. What else? It was smelly, stinky, dusty and very humid. The car they send had no AC. There's no problem, if you can open the window. Well, you could... but as i said smelly, stinky, dusty.

Anyway i liked be driven through Lagos, because there something basic and untamed about the city. I look forward to a further visit, even if there are warning voices.

IITA: If you drive half through, half around Ibadan, you will reach the IITA. Before you arrive you will see slums, dirt, animals, cars and motos - driving and crashed ones - people selling their goods, even a dead body was lying next to the street. This a completely different world. There is nothing i've ever seen like it before. When you enter the IITA it is like you're entering another planet. Clean, nice, quiet. The created not only a research centre, but a place to make holidays. That is what it seems for me. Even Nigerians come here to relax. Actually i don't know if i like it or not, because i feel more like a prisoner. You can't easily go out here to Ibadan. Guards are walking aroung the huge place... I wished for something more simple. It won't be like CentralAmerica, where you go out to buy your food on the market down the street and have a beer in the next bar. But i wait for the weekend, when we go to the market in Ibadan to buy food. Maybe we also go out in the evening to drink at a bar. But there is one rule they insist to respect - don't go out alone!