Thousands displaced from December to February as Lagos authorities destroy homes, evict families in Africa’s largest floating village.
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Lagos, Nigeria – Tunde Agando was paddling his way back to Makoko floating settlement in his canoe on a January afternoon, after taking his mother to the market, when he saw an amphibious excavator tearing down his family’s home.
Before he could get close, the large home on stilts where he and 15 others lived in Lagos, Nigeria, had been brought down with all the possessions inside it – clothes, furniture, his brothers’ carpentry tools with which they built wooden canoes, and his plugged-in phone – lost to the water.
