Lagos housing crisis: Two-room wooden shanties without toilets or bathrooms in Makoko Waterside cost N180,000 annually

The canoe cuts through the murky waters of the Lagoon, guided by a young man standing at the rear, his long stick plunging deep into the black water as the vessel winds between wooden structures perched on stilts. Other canoes drift past—some filled with women selling fish, others carrying children navigating their way across the …