Taofik: How I escaped death and started a family under Oshodi bridge

I had just finished having conversations with the top three winners of the Chess in Slums competition under the bridge in Oshodi when one of the men who provided security for the team for two weeks sat in front of me. He said he would love to be interviewed because “he had a story to tell.”

“I would like to tell you how I got here to start living under the bridge, marrying my wife and having two children.”

He had watched me and the young boys talk about their lives under the bridge in Osho...