Wakabout focuses on walking as it intersects with urbanism and the informal economy in the context of ‘the planned city’. The planned city represents the rote execution of a God’s eye city view that purports to make complex urban realities readable in a plan and in the process, is oblivious to existing realities. 
By considering walking as an elementary way one experiences the city, the project enquires into the feasibility of imported Western planning concepts in a localized context, especially against socio-economic realities in Nigeria. It seeks to probe how conducive urban life is for practitioners of the city who bear the brunt of a difficult socio-economic climate and for whom walking is an economic necessity. How do the specificities of urban Nigerian life fit alongside these plans? 

Abuja is currently the city in focus and the project uses the Abuja master plan document as the primary research source on which the visual identity of the project is built. The subjects of the pictures are located around the city but have been edited to be isolated from the original environment in which they were photographed. This is in reference to these spaces not being accounted for in the master plan. 
Viewing the work from between the red line and the yellow line is inspired by a policy in Accra, Ghana which confines street vendors to a restricted selling area with the attraction of fine if infringed and serves to reinforce the marginalization orchestrated by these plans.