Makoko is an informal settlement across the 3rd Mainland Bridge located on the coast of mainland Lagos, Nigeria. A third of the community is built on stilts along the lagoon and the rest is on the land. The capital of Nigeria, Lagos, is home to a remarkable yet starkly contrasting community known as Makoko - afloating slum that vividly embodies both the res... Makoko is the perfect nightmare for the Lagos government – a slum in full view, spread out beneath the most travelled bridge in west Africa’s megalopolis. Yet this city on stilts, whose residents live under the constant threat of eviction, has much to teach. Aid-funded MakokoFloating School offers free education to local children, most of whose parents fish for a living and who, like most of the megacity's 21 million residents, lack a reliable electricity and water supply. MAKOKO, Nigeria (AP) — Several canoes paddle toward Makoko, a vast floating slum built on stilts in the lagoon at one end of Nigeria’s economic hub of Lagos. Riding on the vessels are giant cardboard… Makoko, Nigeria – It is no ordinary neighbourhood of Lagos – Nigeria’s most populous city – with some calling it the “Venice of Africa”. This 200-year-old water-world, however, is a vast slum with hovels built upon wooden stilts. Makoko is no ordinary neighbourhood of Lagos, Nigeria’s most populous city. Most houses in the slum dwelling rest on wooden stilts in the Lagos Lagoon, which is perhaps why some call it the “Venice of Africa.”.