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Marrakesh → Lagos · 2026
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Chapter 18 · Nigeria

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ASSEMBLY→RETURN

Lagos

(Arrival, installation, living archive)

26 NovOfficial endcloser

The route arrives. What does public visibility owe back?

For whom? · By whom? · Under what care?

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Capture · By whom?

Name one fragment that must not become public until it is checked, returned or removed.

Sound note · 15 s

Name one fragment that must not become public until it is checked, returned or removed.

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The ◉ photo button records a fragment. Voice and note record the field decision around it.

What kind of trace is this? · 0 answers
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Provocation

What has to remain unfinished for the archive to stay honest in Lagos?

Field log

Make the final edit list: publish, hold back, verify, return, ask, delete, and explain why.

Route scaffolds: images and sound seeds↓

These are route scaffolds, not confirmed stops. Each point holds a Wikimedia image slot, a Freesound query and a blog prompt so the road can replace the estimate with lived material.

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Status
Official end
Country
Nigeria
Arrival
26 Nov 2026
Practice
Assembly

Living archive

ASSEMBLYfragments, consent, return, public formArrival is an edit, not an ending

Fragments become public presentation material

Lagos is the official end and the only confirmed arrival, reached via Badagry after the Seme crossing. It is a lagoon megacity of density, creativity and pressure. Arrival here should trouble the idea of closure.

What success looks like

A careful arrival refuses to clean the road into one heroic story. The public artefact shows gaps, corrections, consent choices and the collective labour behind the archive.

For whom?

Who should recognise the road in the work without being exposed or used?

By whom?

Name one fragment that must not become public until it is checked, returned or removed.

“Arrival is an edit, not an ending.”
Counter-Atlas note
“The living archive should show how it was made.”
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