Makoko Demolition: Floating community turns to ghost of the coast

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00:00and I have a video for my favorite music.

00:02The music all around I love you.

00:04I love you to play as well.

00:06People love you.

00:08People love you.

00:10That's how they love you.

00:12They love you.

00:14That's how they love you.

00:16They love you.

00:18They love you.

00:20They love you.

00:22But the work is better to some other.

00:24They are being talented.

00:26I'm a big fan.

00:28for over a century the rhythm of makoko was written on the water it was a world built on

00:35slates a floating community where children learned to paddle before they could walk

00:40and the horizon was a forest of wooden mast but the tide is finally going out what generations

00:47of families called home is being reclaimed by the city it helped build the landscape is changing

00:53where there was once a vibrant market on kenos there is now open water and debris thousands who

00:59have known no other life but the waterfront are now untouching their boat watching a century of

01:06history drift away in the wake of urban expansion on the outskirts families gather what remains

01:13roofing sheets are sold as crab memories are packed into narrow halls there is no hunger in their eyes

01:19today only in the quiet every realization that an hera has reached its horizon

01:33so

01:45You know how you can build it!

01:47Like midterms, don't give up.

01:50We're going to let you go,

01:50and I'll give up with your brother.

01:54We're going to get up with your family.

01:56We want to let you go!

01:58This is the opportunity of giving up.

02:01I've got money back because,

02:03now I will stay.

02:05You've got to drive things around.

02:09They will go for Opa.

02:10No, no.

02:11Cool.

02:12I'll let you go.

02:13Lagos moves forward, stretching towards a modern skyline of concrete and glass.

02:18But as the structures of Makoko fall, a unique chapter of human ingenuity and survivor sinks beneath the surface,

02:26leaving behind only the ripples of what used to be.

02:30The water remains, but the life built upon it is now a ghost of the coast.