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Parents dream of us leaving Makoko and doing better than they did for them- selves, and eventually we dream it too, all the while knowing it to be an elusive fantasy.

— Chioma Okereke Water Baby (2024)

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A person must have many other lives on Makoko in order to eat and sleep.

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...Not many of us have done it, yet that hope pulses within us like a beacon.

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