Surviving SAJOMACO: A Nigerian Boarding School Odyssey

Question: What do you do when the kitchen wall collapses into the vat of beans being cooked for a horde of hungry schoolboys?

Answer: You serve it up anyway! Why let a few lumps of clay and the odd metal screw spoil a decent meal?

When Bunmi Asaolu arrived at the grand gates of St. John/Mary's Unity Secondary School (SAJOMACO) as a first-year student, you'd be forgiven for assuming he was swapping life on the serene university campus he grew up on for another of equal civility. Wrong! Behind ...