‘Colonial-era classism’: Residents decry demolitions in Nigeria’s Makoko

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 insi...