Lagos, Nigeria's fastest-growing megacity of 20 million faces a violent crisis: the government is bulldozing centuries-old waterfront communities to build luxury developments, displacing tens of thousands and killing residents—even as court orders go ignored. NPR correspondent Emmanuel Akinwotu reports on the brutal human cost of African urban transformation. The Nigerian government is systematically demolishing informal waterfront settlements in Lagos to make way for luxury high-rise developments, displacing over 20,000 people in Makoko alone in January-February 2024.