Sunday Magazine
Nuggets for eliminating poverty, achieving Sustainable Development Goals
5 years agoResidents sit outside their demolished stilt houses, after the metropolitan government begins the demolition of the Makoko riverine settlement on the Lagoon in Lagos August 21, 2011. REUTERS/Akintunde Akinleye (NIGERIA - Tags: SOCIETY)
There are tattered clothes everywhere. Cardboard and old comforters are stuffed into a grimy window. Roaches, in their numbers, crisscross the room, which ceiling seems to heave under the weight of the rampaging roaches.