The photographs below show how residents of Makoko, a slum neighborhood located in Lagos, western Nigeria, go through tough conditions to survive life. At present, Makoko population is considered to ...

After shooting his video “Wish U Well” with Swae Lee last week, French Montana donated 500 canoes to the community of Makoko in Lagos, which served as the primary location for the visual. Local ...

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 ...

The Lagos State Government has assured Makoko residents that they would not be evicted in the bid to regenerate the sprawling waterfront community which covers Mainland and Somolu local government ...

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 community in Yaba area of Lagos remains a quintessential habitat that is always in the news. For years, its residents defied all odds to make themselves happy and comfortable in the midst of ...

For decades, residents in Makoko have boarded wooden canoes to navigate through a labyrinth of narrow waterways crisscrossing a floating shanty town perched on stilts above Lagos Lagoon’s murky canals ...

Design and urbanism practice NLÉ, led by Nigerian architect Kunlé Adeyemi, is building a new multilevel school in Makoko – a region of Nigeria's most populous city, Lagos. While that doesn't sound too ...

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 ...

French Montana, the acclaimed musician and philanthropist, has donated 500 canoes to the impoverished community of Makoko in Yaba, Lagos Mainland. Makoko recently served as the backdrop for Montana’s ...