Nigeria. Life in Makoko, a slum community

Two young girls, dressed in purple and holding weaves, stand in the doorway of a hair and beauty salon.

Two women paddle a canoe, loaded with firewood, back to Makoko.

A man looks out from a window in the Makoko slum. Almost 200 year old community.

A young girl washing herself with a bucket bath. There is no running water in Makoko.

A girl sleeps on a jetty in Makoko. There are some 100,000 inhabitants living in the slum.

Two boys playing with an old camera outside a photographer’s shop.

A child manoeuvres a canoe as rain falls in the Makoko slum. Which future for him?

A barber&#039;s shop in the Makoko slum.

A girl paddles her canoe with her little sister inside.