A canoe filled with food floats past a makeshift photo studio in the waterside slum of Makoko in Lagos...
A canoe filled with food floats past a makeshift photo studio in the waterside slum of Makoko in Lagos January 22, 2013. Nigeria is often used by promoters of an "Africa Rising" narrative urging investors to buy into the continent's potential to reap a "demographic dividend" from an expanding population of young people of working age. Yet in the waterside slum of Makoko, where 100,000 residents huddle together in homes on stilts that spill right out into the Lagos Lagoon, few feel on the verge of prosperity. Picture taken January 22, 2013. To match Insight AFRICA-SUMMIT/POPULATION REUTERS/Akintunde Akinleye (NIGERIA - Tags: SOCIETY FOOD BUSINESS)