CULTURETECHLENSMakoko
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Combined Graph record U-01410 · provenance: canonical master store (CSV), record CTL-PL-0085. Master record source: CTL seed 2026-10-16 — UNVERIFIED, verify before public citation.
Makoko is a community situated on Lagos Mainland, Nigeria; UNESCO describes it as a town on stilts and a large low-income community with roughly half its population living on water, and states that it is often called the world's largest floating slum (fetched in full 2026-10-17)
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Makoko is a community situated on Lagos Mainland, Nigeria; UNESCO describes it as a town on stilts and a large low-income community with roughly half its population living on water, and states that it is often called the world's largest floating slum (fetched in full 2026-10-17)
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- https://www.unesco.org/spotlight-children/en/chessinslums (verification source · master store)
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Makoko is a community situated on Lagos Mainland, Nigeria; UNESCO describes it as a town on stilts and a large low-income community with roughly half its population living on water, and states that it is often called the world's largest floating slum (fetched in full 2026-10-17)
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