date:May 05, 2012
days Shemede's sister, Elizabeth, criss-crosses Makoko's waterways in her canoe selling Coca-Cola, Fanta and 7UP alongside home-fried snacks. This is not a drink for everyday, anyhow. Adults buy it when a chief or special guest is visiting, she said, gesturing at crates on her sloping floor, murky brown water visible beneath.
There are other changes. Families in Makoko now occasionally swap traditional dinners such as cow-tongue pepper soup for noodles, residents say.
With ageing and patchy infr