Makoko: Demolitions cast adrift residents of Africa’s biggest floating slum

Makoko: Demolitions cast adrift residents of Africa’s biggest floating slum

Amphibious excavators escorted by armed policemen have roared through Makoko, Africa’s largest and most legendary floating slum in recent days, crushing hundreds of wooden shacks built on stilts above the lagoon in the heart of Lagos. The operation is the

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