Sittings Cock Photography Portraits of Distinction.

A Modest Stake

A Black Langshan rooster with glossy black plumage and a green sheen in a flowing white agbada with gold embroidery at the neck and a matching white cap, seated at a small wooden table in an open-fronted Lagos eatery at midday, a plate of jollof rice with fried plantain, an unlabelled brown bottle and a blue enamel teapot in front of him, a sunlit street softly blurred behind

Patient Capital

Everyone at the next table is talking about shares. He bought the smallest bundle on offer, for roughly the price of this lunch, and plans to be the most patient investor in Lagos, starting with the plantain.

14 September 2026

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