Most evenings, Abigail Hounkpe can be found paddling her wooden canoe on the murky waters in Makoko, a waterfront community on the Lagos lagoon in Nigeria's southwest. She stops in front of a church ...
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 Lagos. Riding on the vessels are giant cardboard ...
The community based off the coast of Lagos appears in the rapper's music video for "Wish U Well" Sadie Bell was a digital news writer on the music team at PEOPLE. She joined PEOPLE in 2023. Her work ...
LAGOS, NigeriaLAGOS, Nigeria — The Makoko slum floats on the murky lagoon that separates mainland Nigeria from the island that gave birth to its largest city, a permanent haze of smoke rising from ...
A new football pitch has been opened in the Makoko area of Lagos, Nigeria, as part of ESPN's Built to Play initiative, and serves a community of nearly 100,000 people where there is no other pitch.
Scores of residents of Makoko, the biggest floating slum in Lagos, on Wednesday protested the proposed development of the community by the Lagos State government. The residents who gathered at the ...
In Makoko, Nigeria — a floating slum in a lagoon just outside Lagos — a three-story school building with a bright blue roof peers over the mud-colored village. Makoko stands out from the rest of the ...
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 Lagos. Riding on the vessels are giant cardboard ...
In this photo taken Thursday, July 26, 2012, a child stand in front of his demolished stilt house at Makoko in Lagos, Nigeria. The teeming, floating Makoko slum rises out of the murky lagoon water ...
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