•A local bridge on the waterfront.•The kids at home with their pet.•Future leaders at the Makoko waterfront in Lagos, southwest Nigeria.•Mother and her children on the lagoon.•A mother taking her children out in her canoe.•A mother with a child strapped to her back, alongside her little boy, go fishing on the Lagos lagoon.•SHOP ON THE LAGOON…Selling her wares from her canoe on the Lagos lagoon. Photos: Idowu Ogunleye.
