2. Lunch is served

3. Small chops in formation

4. The. Perfect. Ultimate. Snack

6. Believe what you want, but small chops are a balanced diet

7. I mean…

8. Isn’t this beautiful?

9. Only a monster can resist something that looks like this

10. Or this

11. See, ehn…

12. Look, small chops work in any context

13. No event is complete without it

14. I would like to know which got done first, the working or the chopping

15. They’ve been known to make everything better

16. Of course, this blue-haired person approves

17. And if for some reason, you still had doubts, well…

2. Ikeja City Mall

3. Adrenaline Sports Bar at The Four Points Sheraton

4. The Soul Lounge Lagos

5. Eko Hotel And Suites

6. Radisson Blu Anchorage

7. Lagos Oriental Hotel

8. The Place Nightclub

9. Lafayette Mall

10. Dream Plaza

And these are Roi and Ndotto

Ah, you must also meet this fella who’s in a awful hurry

These guys are Mbegu, Kauro and Kamok

They, with all the other baby elephants, live at the David Sheldrick Wildlife Trust, in Nairobi, Kenya

Such adorable creatures

We have a special thing, you and me

Just look at that

These are the cutest baby elephants you have ever seen

But they have a really important story that more people should hear about

Tens of thousands of elephants are killed each year by poachers, who hunt them for ivory. According to research, up to 100,000 African elephants were killed between 2011 and 2014 alone

Elephant tusks do not grow out properly until they get older, so poachers generally ignore the calves. But once their tusks (which are聽really modified inscisors in the upper jaw) become noticeable, they become targets for poachers

It’s really grotesque, what these poachers do

As if killing mature elephants for ivory wasn鈥檛 bad enough, their deaths mean that the young elephants are left to fend for themselves. Baby elephants need their mother’s milk exclusively for two years, and partially till they are four. If they aren鈥檛 rescued, they almost certainly die

Conservation organisations like the David Sheldrick Wildlife Trust rescue these orphan elephants and raise them till they are old enough to live independently

Many of them have been re-released into the wild

And re-united with their families

And these guys, the anti-poaching rangers, do everything they can to make sure that poachers don鈥檛 get to them

It鈥檚 very good but very hard work. Elephant conservation organisations like the DSWT need your help. Donations go a long way

You can also help by educating the people around you about elephant conservation and the dangers of poaching

1. Kai, it’s time to go already?

2. You are already thinking about your next trip.

3. Then you spy all those Nigerians at the boarding gate…

4. And you’re real happy to hear folk speaking a familiar language.

5. Until the familiar Nigerian energy starts making you tired inside.

6. And when one of them inevitably begins to mix it up with the flight officials, you are like..

7. Because, right now…

8. But when you run into the Nigerian celebrity who’s traveling back on the same flight as you, you remember your roots once more.

9. That time when the plane touched down in Lagos, and everyone clapped for the pilot.

10. When your luggage that is filled with abroad shopping appears not to be coming onto the conveyor belt in baggage claim.

11. Praying in tongues so the customs people don’t check your bags and discover all the shopping you brought back from Dubai.

12. You are frantically looking for Naira to settle the airport lackeys, but you mistakenly pull out hard currency.

13. When someone asks you how you are leaving the airport so they can hitch a ride.

14. When your relatives and friends who came to pick you up are asking 鈥渨hat did you bring for us?鈥�

15. When you step out of departures and are greeted by that blast of hot, humid air.

1. In people’s backyards.

2. In Parklands.

3. On the way to the office.

4. Inside the office buildings.

5. In the National museum

6. In the park. Of course.

7. Jacaranda petals on the sidewalk are the perfect summation of life.

8. And are the perfect backdrop for memorable selfies.

9. It probably doesn鈥檛 get any better than this.

10. Here’s the tweet that started it all.