date:May 05, 2012
Noah Shemede can still recall the moment he first held a bottle ofCoca-Cola. Born and raised in the Makoko slum, a maze of canoes and stilt houses on the polluted Lagos lagoon in Nigeria, he tasted the drink on his ninth birthday after his parents made a special trip to the mainland to buy it.
I put some in my mouth and spit it straight back out! I didn't like the taste at all! Shemede, 29, said with a laugh, perched on a dugout canoe gliding past rubbish and weed-choked banks.
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