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Nigeria Fashion Week

We spend the day with the insightful and heavily ADD- afflicted hairdresser Blessed. He takes us through an insane market and then to the salon where he used to work, leading to an unlikely revelation that he–as he alleges most in the industry do–has been “gay-for-pay” to further his career as a stylist. As he says, “In the Nigerian fashion industry, to get ahead you need to be gay or have God.”

Speaking of God, Charlet meets up with a former 419 scammer, now turned God-fearing fashion photographer Justice Karo, who once did impressions of females to extort money out of lonely male Australians, but has now turned a new leaf. Despite his new profession as a fashion photographer, he believes that fashion week is the work of the devil.

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