Caboose

The Abuja Carnival finally happened last week, but I don’t have any pictures. This is mostly because the whole thing was so badly publicised that we never found out when the various events were happening.

For example, I think there were carnival parades Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday but nobody could tell me when the parade was due to start or when it would finish at Eagle Square. On Saturday there was a regatta on Jabi Lake, but I only found out about it afterwards. It seems the best way to find out what was going on was to sit indoors and watch NTA.

It looks like a lot of effort went in to organising the carnival but this was ruined by the lack of a published programme. In fact, posters advertising the carnival only went up about a week before it started. Maybe it’ll be better run next year…