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 ...

Esther Ikechukwu, a beneficiary of Slum2School project attends a virtual class from her home in Makoko, Lagos LAGOS (Reuters) - Outside her home in the Lagos slum of Makoko, Esther Ikechukwu stacks ...

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 ...

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 ...

In recent years, densely-populated slum, Makoko has become a destination for artists and philanthropists inspired by the people’s audacious determination to make ends meet against the odds. In this ...

LAGOS (Reuters) - Outside her home in the Lagos slum of Makoko, Esther Ikechukwu stacks two upturned buckets, places a handbag on top and rests a tablet against it. Her balancing act finished, 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 ...