Men and boys squatted on the asphalt, poking through piles of cheap watches, cassette tapes, jewelry.
Ogunjiofor had noticed that many Igbos owned VCRs, on which they watched cassettes of pirated foreign films.
I read, I watch a cassette, I try not to think.
Watching a cassette tape spin on the iPhone's high-resolution display is oddly calming and, thanks to digital compression, the audio is far superior in AirCassette than it ever was on my Sony Walkman.
Around the corner stood one of those "everything" shops that sold, alongside perfume and cheap watches, bootleg cassettes.
He stores and displays these "treasures" such as a birdcage full of rubber ducks, a Rubik's Cube, Zippo lighters, disposable cups filled with plastic cutlery and a golden trophy at his home where he examines and categorizes his finds while watching video cassettes of musicals via an iPod viewed through a large Fresnel lens.
In the villa, having eaten his steak and eggs and drunk a few pints of orange juice, the champion was watching a television cassette of a fight preview with rapt, boyish attention, his mouth slightly open.
What better way to prove you're not a stuffy old accountant's assistant (even if you you are, no judgment) than with a watch shaped like a cassette tape.
The volunteers were divided into four groups so that no one had to watch more than 14 cassettes.
"I like to absorb myself in a situation, watch a lot of cassettes and talk to a lot of people," he said.
