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Nigeria. Life in Makoko, a slum community

February 6, 2020

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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.
One of the few private schools in Makoko. Since the authorities consider the settlement illegal there are also no public schools there.
A Baptist minister holds a bible in one hand and a sachet of drinking water in the other during a Sunday service.
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.
Canoes and their goods seen from above in Makoko, a slum community. Makoko sits atop some of the most expensive real estate in Nigeria.
A child manoeuvres a canoe as rain falls in the Makoko slum. Which future for him?
A barber's shop in the Makoko slum.
A girl paddles her canoe with her little sister inside.
Petrut Calinescu/Panos

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