Before hashtags and outfit grids, Nigerians already had their own runways: the street, the Owambe, campus and the church. There were no filters, reels or hashtags. Just pure drip and self-confidence.

Under the fading Bengaluru sun, with tension thick enough to cut through, Connor Esterhuizen stood tall — calm, daring, and utterly destructive — as South Africa A pulled off a heist for the ages, ...