edoato: this community started from nothing. now it s booming. and the government is coming to seize it. anthony: they want to get you out, right? yomi: yes. anthony: they d like to build hotels. yomi mesu, the son of a neighborhood leader. but they ve been forced to stop. edoato: no they are not stopping, we ve been able to halt them . two, three weeks ago there was another community on the other side of lagos on the island was also demolished. yomi: they just come and demolish. edoato: the people living here, there s also livelihood that depends on fishing. they are fisher people. so if you take them to the mainland, it s like taking the fish out of water. yomi: they can t survive. can t survive. can t survive. anthony: what do we have here, what kind of fish? yomi: this is moyo. anthony: moyo. yomi: you eat it with this flake. we call this eba.
anthony: all right. yomi: and here we call this galee. anthony: that looks good. good. delicious. all the children i see, do they go to school? what will they do, will they stay here and take up the family business or are they going to move on? edoato: some will grow up to be accountants, they ll become professionals. but what would a lawyer do? what would an accountant do? when there is no food. most of the fishes that have been sold to the rich men in government have been taken from this village. we need people that do fishing, that do farming. anthony: but you re going to need lawyers. edoato: definitely everybody needs everybody.
and the government is coming to seize it. anthony: they want to get you out, right? yomi: yes. anthony: they d like to build hotels. yomi mesu, the son of a neighborhood leader. but they ve been forced to stop. edoato: no they are not stopping, we ve been able to halt them . two, three weeks ago there was another community on the other side of this on the island was also demolished. yomi: they just come and demolish. edoato: the people living here, their source of livelihood that depends on fishing. they are fisher people. so if you take them to the mainland, it s like taking the fish out of water. yomi: they can t survive. can t survive. can t survive. anthony: what do we have here, what kind of fish? yomi: this is moyo. anthony: moyo. yomi: you eat it with this (inaudible) flake. we call this eba. anthony: all right. yomi: and here we call this galee. anthony: that looks good.
[ singing ] anthony: it s a fully functioning community. i ve seen barbershops, restaurants, groceries, hotels edoato: hospitals, private schools anthony: self-made, self-run, self-policing, independent of everything. it exists because it has to. i mean there s electricity. there s water. all of this you provide, yes? edoato: yes. yomi: yes. we provide.
anthony: edoato agbeniyi is a musician and activist. edoato: this community started from nothing. now it s booming. and the government is coming to seize it. anthony: they want to get you out, right? yomi: yes. anthony: they d like to build hotels. yomi mesu, the son of a neighborhood leader but they ve been forced to stop. edoato: no they are not stopping, we ve been able to halt them . two, three weeks ago there was another community on the other side of this on the island was also demolished. yomi: they just come and demolish. edoato: the people living here, there s also livelihood that depends on fishing. they are fisher people. so if you take them to the mainland, it s like taking the fish out of water. yomi: they can t survive. can t survive. can t survive. anthony:what do we have here, what kind of fish? yomi: this is moyo. anthony: moyo. yomi: you eat it with this flake. we call this eba. anthony: all right. yomi: and here we call this