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The Night of the Long Camp

“By now the black night had enveloped us and as we listened to the plaintive cries of the wild cars coming from the Epe Expressway the kids at first organised themselves into tribal games of piggyback racing and chasing. Eventually the females gathered in a circle and discussed “Relationships: their pitfalls and advantages”, while most of the guys engaged in serious male bonding. Some competed in teams trying to kick a leather ball into a target, while a small group secretly began imbibing hallucinatory liquids…” Franjo Wright supervises a group of Duke of Edinburgh’s Award candidates on an overnight camp in Lagos!