Drone Project Aims To Put Floating Lagos Slum On Map
November 29, 2019
4:40 pm
John Eromosele records the coordinates of a bustling canal on his smartphone from aboard a dug-out canoe navigating the floating slum of Makoko in Nigerian megacity Lagos.
The waterway is “like a boulevard, there’s always traffic here,” the computer coding specialist laughed as other boats jostled for space between rows of wooden houses on stilts.
Officially Makoko does not exist.
Its estimated 300,000 inhabitants — no one knows for sure how many — and their ramshackle homes do not appear on any city development plans or maps.
A South Africa-based NGO, Code for Africa, wants to change that.
It wants
