Nigeria Evicts 40,000 from Floating Slum

Every Saturday morning, Joshua Idowu, 37, picks up his soccer cleats and a whistle and leaves his home in Makoko, a century-old fishing community in Nigeria’s Lagos State that’s known as the “Venice of Africa.” For 45 minutes he treks across the floating settlement of wooden homes sitting on stilts above the polluted Lagos Lagoon Read more... The post Nigeria Evicts 40,000 from Floating Slum appeared first on Christianity Today.