Social Entrepreneurship and Life in Nigeria

Traveling to Africa has provided me with the opportunity to do a few things that I never really wanted to do- bathing with a bucket of cold water at 5am, taking 14 hour bus rides on roads with more potholes than pavement, and enduring the painfully bad acting in Nollywood movies.

It has also provided me with the opportunity to try a few things that I have always wanted to do- getting drunk on palm wine, bribing police officials, and taking photographs (not necessarily all at the same time).

I never owned a digital camera, so I used this trip as a good excuse to finally try my hand at photography.  I got a pretty neat Canon D40 digital SLR from my buddy Arik's camera shop back in Canada (www.photographywest.ca), and it has provided me with more fun than I expected.

My favorite subjects are the kids in the villages that I work in.  They are usually very excited to have their pictures taken, and even more thrilled with looking at it immediately afterwards...