Kolapo Joshua (not real name) was seated in a corner of Centre for Black and African Arts and Civilization (CBAAC) Library, reading a 1964 dictionary of music — Pergamon Dictionary of Musicians and Music. He had a face towel he frequently sneezed out congestions in his nostrils into. As he flipped through the pages of the book, the sunrays reflected through the window caught few dust particles as they escaped pages of Joshua’s book. Joshua might have inhaled some of these particles and might have caused his nasal irritation, this reporter suspected.
Located on Wesley Street, Lagos Island, CBAAC Library could be the hub of book lovers and culture jocks who seek to detach from the unremitting noise synonymous with Lagos Island but the library holds no such possibility. The decrepit building — a colonial architecture that housed the library — looked abandoned just as the…
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