Drone project aims to put floating Lagos slum on map

Jeje Aide Albert (left), one of the Makoko community leaders, speaking about digital mapping of the community by Code for Africa, an aid group that is using drones and young slum dwellers to map Makoko at the heart of Nigeria's economic capital. — Photos: AFP

LAGOS: John Eromosele records the coordinates of a bustling canal on his smartphone from aboard a dug-out canoe navigating the floating slum of Makoko in Nigerian megacity Lagos.

The waterway is "like a boulevard, there's always traffic here," the computer coding specialist laughed as other boats jostled for space between rows of wooden houses on stilts.