As I finish my book Poster: Paper as Fetish,
Enchantment, and Trash in the Twenty-First Century, I've become hooked on the
status of West African posters today. While I love popular posters
that describe current events as well as urban legends, like this description of a secret cult.
But I've become especially
interested in the heavy posting of election posters. To this end, I was amazed to see a 31 second,
this television spot, issued by the Federal Road Safety Corps of Nigeria and posted on You Tube earlier this month,
highlighting a safety hazard has posted a short promo warning of
election posters. For years, pundits
decried the ensuing visual mayhem as posters were plastered "indiscriminately
on bridges, road medians, major roads and expressways across the state.” But a poster covering a highway safety sign? Note the car crash in the background.
