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Makoko
The waterside home
A waterside community of ferries, stilt homes, hidden engineering and family protection.
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Makoko is Kehinde and Taiwo's home with Aunty Ronke and Uncle Duro, and the place Afolabi keeps returning to when the wider world turns him into a classification. Its workshops, waterways and family rules make technology, protection and ordinary life inseparable.
