The Dayo Adedayo One – Documenting Nigeria | ONE2ONE (S4 E5: Broadcast Edition)

Описание: In this Season 4 broadcast episode of ONE2ONE, Dayo Adedayo reflects on photography not as art, but as record — as a form of institutional memory.

Spanning decades of work documenting Nigeria's national monuments, landscapes, and lived realities across all 774 local government areas, the conversation examines why societies that endure learn to document themselves early; why culture is infrastructure; and what is lost when everyday life, ordinary people, and working systems are not preserved structurally through time.

We discuss how Nigeria’s landscapes, architecture, and civic story are changing faster than they are being recorded, and explore Lagos in Motion — the idea that a city often described as chaotic may in fact contain overlapping systems, informal order, and a deeper civic intelligence that formal institutions frequently fail to recognise.

🕒 Chapters
00:00 ONE2ONE opening
00:17 Culture as infrastructure
00:55 When photography becomes documentation
04:46 Leaving social photography behind
05:11 Why Nigeria needed a visual archive
07:21 Institutional silence and the African state
09:28 What is lost when a nation fails to record itself
11:07 Passports, currency, and national memory
13:59 Lagos in Motion: order inside “chaos”
19:40 Values, education, and civic decline
24:01 Future generations and the archive
28:05 Closing


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This broadcast edition is a time-adapted version of the complete ONE2ONE conversation.
On-screen photograph credits: Photographs © Dayo Adedayo. Used with permission.

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