My family emigrated from Nigeria to the US in 1997. I had a chance to visit my hometown of Ile-Ife (Ife, for short) recently.
The first two pictures are of Nigerian food. The ones in the picture are catfish, amala (yam flour) and ewedu (jute leaves) with obe (tomato soup). The meals were prepared by my aunt on my way to Ife.
The 3rd picture is of a door at the guest house of Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU). The designs on the door are typical of Yoruba art. Ife means "expansion" in Yoruba and it's from here that the Yorubas expanded into other cities.
The 4th picture is of a building right across from the engineering & physics building on OAU's campus.
I went to school at a elementary school on the campus until age 9 called Staff School (it was for children & relatives of university staff). Picture 5 is of the front field where I used to wait for my grandpa to pick me up and collect ladybugs. Picture 6 is of a girl wearing the green-checkered uniforms I wore during my days there.
Picture 7 shows the office of the headmistress (it was a headmistress during my time there). I was in a class that was next door to that office and we were so unruly that we were moved into the library and disciplined.
Picture 8 shows one of the small houses next to the school. My schoolmates and I use to steal mangoes from the trees by these houses once school was over.