Lita,Laura and Jide. I know Jide from the college where I asked him to pose for me for an advertising photography assignment: you can see the result on the shelf above them! Jide is from Nigeria and he met Lita, his partner and future wife in Edinburgh. Their little daughter Laura was born just two weeks before I took this portrait. Lita comes from one of the island of Cape Verde at the west coast of Africa and speaks Portuguese and English. Jide brought a “Talking Drum” to Scotland with him. This instrument, which you can see on the left seating on the speaker, was used to send detailed messages between villages in some regions of West Africa many years ago and now it becomes a part of popular music in this region of the world.