W. Eugene Smith Fund for Humanitarian Photography – Student : Fawaz Oyedeji

Yours In Arms explores how surrounding circumstances has shaped human behaviour of student-cadets in Nigeria. The establishment of para-military organisation in institutions dates back to the Nigerian Second Republic (1976) under a militia regime headed by General Olusegun Obasanjo to coax more educated fellows into the army. However, since that period, the human environment has been transformed with amazing speed under the influence of several revolutions and government decisions, which have simultaneously affected the sciences and the technologies, economies and political relations, demography and social structures of the Nation.