Enoch Ayodele

Lagos, Nigeria — Three months after the Lagos State Government demolished large parts of Makoko, the waterfront settlement known as Nigeria's Venice, the impact on the community's schools is visible and growing. The first thing you notice in this floating community is not the silence that followed the coming of excavators and uniformed men who came with them. It is the sound of children trying to read on a Monday morning at Mawumadoka Orphans and Less Privileged Home and School.