Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A woman sits in a canoe as she sells food to children at the Makoko fishing community on the Lagos Lagoon LAGOS (Reuters) - When ...

Over 300,000 people live in Makoko, a floating slum built above polluted, toxic water. This water is their food source, their bathroom, and even what some children drink just to survive. I spent a day ...

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 ...

A journey through Makoko quickly turns from curiosity into a harsh look at survival. The narrator rides through narrow canals, sees children moving around by boat, and learns that sewage from land ...

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 ...

The return of the slum in rich Western cities is becoming inevitable. The increasing number of people living in RVs is a sure sign of its recrudesce in Seattle, a city that has no real memory of slums ...

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. Several hundred thousand ...

Al Jazeera’s new series Rebel Architecture uncovers the architects who are shunning the glamour of ‘starchitecture’ and using design to tackle the world’s urban,environmental and social crises. The ...

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 ...