Most evenings, Abigail Hounkpe can be found paddling her wooden canoe on the murky waters in Makoko, a waterfront community on the Lagos lagoon in Nigeria’s southwest. She stops in front of a church ...

The community based off the coast of Lagos appears in the rapper's music video for "Wish U Well" Sadie Bell was a digital news writer on the music team at PEOPLE. She joined PEOPLE in 2023. Her work ...

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 ...

A 2024 study published in the Nigerian Library of Medicine (NLM), titled "A Population-Based Estimation of Maternal Mortality ...

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 ...

Nigerian musician and songwriter Ayodeji Ibrahim Balogun, better known by his stage name Wizkid, garnered attention after he was spotted giving out 100 million naira for Christmas to local children in ...

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, 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 ...