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Team: The Hustler

Lagos: beating the cross town traffic
The team doesn’t normally require a full time hustler, but it does need people who know how to hustle: that can talk their way through …



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30 Jun 2013

In: Research Methods
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Aspiration at the Edge of the Internet

23 Feb 2013

In: Cultural Norms
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The house on the left might look like a humble poster to you, and a slightly cheesy one at that, but actually its significance belies …
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Tsunami, the Movie

In a country where a music video is shot in a day, and a movie can be shot in two – a collation of news …
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Police & Thieves

25 Aug 2011

In: Today's Office
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Been enjoying some late night/early morning walks through the urban landscape that is distinctly Lagos – dark streets puntuated up by small groups huddled around …
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Bait and Switch, By Golly

24 Aug 2011

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Free AutoCAD Training (Accept Jesus Today) at Lagos’s computer village.
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Street. Shave.

24 Aug 2011

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In Sabo Market 100 Naira (50 euro cents) buys you a fresh razor, the subtlest fingers south of the equator and 20 minutes of head-down, …
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The Return

22 Aug 2011

In: Today's Office
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That moment post-interview, when the thing that stands between the team and sleep is the need to review the session’s data, a debrief with the …
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Caco

20 Aug 2011

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Day 1 in Lagos – setting up our pop-up design studio. 2 weeks on the ground with a strong local crew, so much to learn, …
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