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Out of the ruins: film inspired by slum clearance in Nigeria opens in Toronto
news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · Yesterday - 09:00
Made by the city’s Agbajowo Collective, The Legend of the Vagabond Queen of Lagos is a cry of protest at evictions
In November 2016, people living in Otodo-Gbame, a fishing shantytown on Nigeria’s Lagos coastline, saw their community partially destroyed by fire. Attempts to get the police to stop the destruction were futile, according to an Amnesty International report . Instead of helping, “the police and a demolition team returned overnight with a bulldozer”.
Much of the blame fell on the Lagos state government, which had publicised plans to remove waterside slums around the city. Still, the government denied responsibility for demolishing the shantytown , even as it noted that it would “prefer to have better development, befitting of a prime area in a mega city” on the land occupied by the community.
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