Jethro Yacim, a retired police officer in his early 60s, sat in front of the first floor of his storey building with his index finger scrolling through his smartphone. The ground floor has been overrun by water. Behind the house were other landed properties he laboured for over 35 years to acquire with his wife. They have all been submerged by the flood.
Around 5:30 pm on a Tuesday evening in April at Itire market, one of the popular markets along Mile 2, Lagos state, 34-year-old Joyce Bassey was packing up for the day. She lifted up her head from the tray seasoning cubes she had been packing up, sensing a possible last-minute sale as I approached her.
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