Amphibious excavators escorted by armed policemen have roared through Makoko, Africa's largest and most legendary floating slum in recent days, crushing hundreds of wooden shacks built on stilts above ...
John Eromosele records the coordinates of a bustling canal on his smartphone from aboard a dug-out canoe navigating the floating slum of Makoko in Nigerian megacity Lagos. The waterway is “like a ...
LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) -- The teeming, floating Makoko slum rises out of the murky lagoon water that separates mainland Nigeria from the island that gave birth to its largest city, a permanent haze of ...
MAKOKO, Nigeria — Several canoes paddle toward Makoko, a vast floating slum built on stilts in the lagoon at one end of Nigeria’s economic hub of Lagos. Riding on the vessels are giant cardboard ...
Christians struggle to help displaced residents find shelter. Every Saturday morning, Joshua Idowu, 37, picks up his soccer cleats and a whistle and leaves his home in Makoko, a century-old fishing ...
Amphibious excavators escorted by armed policemen have roared through Makoko, Africa's largest and most legendary floating slum in recent days, crushing hundreds of wooden shacks built on stilts above ...
MAKOKO, Nigeria (AP) — Several canoes paddle toward Makoko, a vast floating slum built on stilts in the lagoon at one end of Nigeria’s economic hub of MAKOKO, Nigeria (AP) — Several canoes paddle ...
For some, Makoko provides an escape from the overcrowded neighborhoods of Lagos, a city of millions where families crowd into one-room apartments or sleep soundly in unfinished buildings. Others view ...
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