'Playful Identities' research blog

Below a couple of NomadicMILK videos I posted on Youtube:

* NM fieldtrip part 1

* NM fieldtrip part 2

* Google Earth animatie:

* Robot demo TheUpgrade!

Yes, it’s our last day. Yesterday we arrived in Abuja, after having stayed a few days in Jos for the second time. We are again in Daniel’s place, Esther’s cousin. His internet connection was broken 2 weeks ago because overzealous road workers dug a trench in his street and cut through the telephony cables. Esther and I decided to do it the African way. We jumped into the dust pit with gaffer tape and a leatherman and tried to fix the telephone line by tying all threads of the same color together. And it worked…! (written proof here).

After visiting Lagos, we followed a Peak Milk transport by truck. Our driver was mr. Bello. He himself was of partly Fulani descent. When he understood that we were interested in \Peak Milk AND Fulani milk, he started to tell stories about milk and pointed out every Fulani herd we passed!

The whole trip to Jos lasted 2 days. The first day was not so quick due to engine difficulties. At the fall of night we had to split up and go ahead in the security car that followed us. This became a hallucinogenic 4 hour nightly speed-drive to Abuja, including deep potholes, sudden roadblocks, bushfires, the fear of armed robbers and joining a spontaneous car convoy at up to 140 km/h through thick layers of smoke. We arrived in Abuja at 22:00, 4 hours after dark. The next day drive to Jos was more comfortable

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We were shown around by the proud Italian captain of the new port in Lagos, owned by Grimaldi.