When Taiwo Adeyemi set out to document and preserve Nigeria’s film history as curator of last year’s Lagos exhibition, ‘Losing Daylight’, he spent time travelling across the country talking with people to find some of the items he’d eventually display at an exhibition.
After collecting a number of items, the restoration process started, to ensure they were good enough to be presented. ‘A lot of the items we found were in terrible condition, and some of their custodians were also unwilling to let them go. The ones that did [requested] exorbitant prices,’ Adeyemi says.
