Internationally acclaimed Borno documentary photographer, Fati Abubakar has shared her experience from hanging out with wealthy African elite as “exceptionally entertaining, draining and sometimes boring”
Taking to her
Facebook page on Thursday September 3, Fatima recalled an episode in which one
of these Nigerian elite wanted to know if she was from one of the popular
Abubakar families.
“I find
‘hanging out’ and discussions with African bourgeois elite exceptionally
entertaining, draining and sometimes boring. Endless conversations about
London, New York, Dubai and the ever so obvious disdain for the ‘poor’ and the
bread crumbs style of scholarships and non profits established as a wealth
distribution strategy when in reality it is narcissistic opportunitistic
capitalist form of activism. The high fashion brand worship; Prada, Chanel,Tom
Ford. Then talks of Daddy’s connections. ?The Ivy leagues obsession and the
stupefaction at the moment when you as a middle class child have access to
spaces they inhabit.
‘Which of the
Abubakars are you?’ was a question I was asked once by a Nigerian ‘creme de la
creme’
‘Not the
famous ones you know I replied’
‘Did I have
to be the Atiku Abubakars or the Abdulsalami Abubakars to thrive in our
nepotistic country?”
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