(27 Aug 2024)
NIGERIA RAGE ROOM
SOURCE: ASSOCIATED PRESS
RESTRICTION SUMMARY:
LENGTH: 3:29
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Lagos, Nigeria – 28 July 2024
++AUDIO AS INCOMING++
1. Various of ragers smashing screens and bottles
2. SOUNDBITE (English) Olaribigbe Akeem, rager, vox pop:
"While I was smashing, a lot was running through my mind, like the current status of living in Nigeria, has gone high. You have to battle with a lot of things: cost of feeding, transportation, and all that. Then my take home cannot actually take me home, you know? So there’s a lot to be venting for.”
3. Various of Akeem smashing items in the rage room
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Olaribigbe Akeem, rager, vox pop:
"I will do it over and over…again. You know, nobody’s going to hold you for coming to smash or let your anger out here in a safe environment. But imagine if you hit your spouse or hit your colleague, or you hit a fellow motorist like you, you know, you’re going to get charged for all those things. But, come on, I did all that here with nobody holding me."
5. Various of Akeem in the rage room
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Olaribigbe Akeem, rager, vox pop:
"This is my smashing experience is going to raise the bar for my mental alertness up to 1,000 plus because I’d let go of some bad vents, anger, stress, issues. So, this is like re-energizing myself to be ready to face some other issues coming so I feel renewed."
7. Various of ragers smashing a TV screen
8. SOUNDBITE (English) James Babajide Banjoko, owner, Shadow Rage room:
"Most people lash out on people all of a sudden because they have this anger in them that has been built up over time. We are not also saying… it is also impossible for you to be angry at that point and say you are coming to a rage room to come and destress. What we are saying is, come after all these pent-up emotions to the Shadow Rage Room and come and try it out. If it works for you, I mean we’ve seen it work for some people, this is not like a joke, people break down. We’ve actually sent people to therapy from the rage room and some people just come for fun."
19. Mid of a rager setting up items to smash
10. SOUNDBITE (English) James Babajide Banjoko, owner, Shadow Rage room:
"A rage room is not a therapy session; however, your therapy session can begin or end with a rage room. What we do here is to help people discover that sometimes therapy is needed, and this happens a lot of time after their session."
11. Various of a rager in a rage room
STORYLINE:
LEADIN:
Nigerians angry about the cost of living crisis are letting off some steam in a new rage room.
Life in Lagos can sometimes be stressful but it seems going crazy with a sledgehammer on some old TVs for half an hour might be just the antidote.
STORYLINE:
These people are having a smashing time.
In Lagos, Nigeria’s largest city, people are finding their reset button in a “rage room” where they pay to smash electronics and furniture with a sledgehammer as a break from the worst cost-of-living crisis in a generation.
The Shadow Rage Room, apparently the first of its kind in Nigeria, offers “a safe space” for people to let out pent-up emotions.
For 7,500 naira ($5 US dollars), customers are left alone with protective gear and a sledgehammer or bat in a room for a 30-minute session with the items that are later recycled.
At the end of one session of smashing, Olaribigbe Akeem, comes out sweating but relieved and visibly happy.
Lagos is an overcrowded city of about 20 million people and a magnet for those seeking better opportunities.
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