Community leaders in Lagos say evictions in the name of development have left many residents of this fishing village homeless ...

Amphibious excavators escorted by armed policemen roar through Makoko, Africa's largest and most legendary floating slum, ...

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 ...

Makoko is a vast floating community built on stilts above the water in Lagos, Nigeria. Often called the “Venice of Africa,” ...

LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) – In the waterfront slum of Makoko in Nigeria’s largest city where shacks stand above the murky, fetid water on stilts of cast-aside lumber, an architect thinks the neighborhood ...

The lagoon waters at the port entrance to Lagos, Nigeria's economic capital, are usually teeming with small fishing boats. The bustling waterfront slums of Lagos are now quiet after the army evicted ...

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 ...