Reportage editor
Tomás Okafor
Lagos & Rotterdam
Tomás reports on infrastructure, labour and the people who keep cities running after dark.
Before Marginalia he spent six years at a regional daily covering ports, buses and the occasional flood.
Stories
Repair
Saturday at the Repair Café
Four hours, thirty-one broken appliances and one retired engineer who refuses to give up on a 1978 toaster.
Night Shift
The 04:10 Night Bus
Riding the N7 from Zuidplein to Centraal with nurses, cleaners and a man carrying a cello.
Water
The Pumping Station Keepers
Twelve people, forty pumps, and a flood plan printed on paper just in case.
Borrowed
The Tool Library on Mathenesserlaan
Four hundred tools, one basement and a membership card that costs less than a drill bit.
Noise
The Loudest Street in Rotterdam
Twenty-four hours with a sound meter on a street of trams, bars, sirens and one very patient florist.