africa by okada - fabrice

“I choose to go back by road because nothing is awaiting me in France, I mean a job, a test or even a wife, nothing”

“This bike represents my entire stay in Nigeria. It reminds me of the everyday life in Lagos, the ‘go slow’, people I talk with at traffic lights, and so on. I am so much addicted to my bike in a sense that there hasn’t been a day when I don’t ride it.”

“It has always been my dream since my childhood to tour some African countries such as Ghana, Burkina-Faso, Dogon, Mopti, Niger, and the gates of the desert of Sahara in Timbuktu.”

* Pictures courtesy of the French Cultural Centre, Lagos