Wave Dey Call
Godpower is his birth name. The ocean is his power.
Growing up in Tarkwa Bay, Lagos, Godpower “GP” Pekipuma watched The Endless Summer. Seeing surfers who seemed to walk on water inspired him to learn to surf.
Years later, I arrived in Lagos wearing an Endless Summer shirt with Nigeria printed on it. Looking for a surf lesson led me to GP on Instagram, and then to Tarkwa Bay.
That lesson became a friendship and eventually GODPOWER, an award-winning short film made with GP, his family and community.
Godpower Surf carries that story forward.
Wave Dey Call means “the wave is calling” in Nigerian Pidgin English.