IN Lagos, a megacity with a population estimated at 21 million, the state government has been building a satellite city, known as Eko Atlantic. At the same time, it has been destroying informal settlements, where as much as 60%-70% of Lagos’s population may live. HALIMAT SOMOTAN, Assistant Professor of African Studies, Georgetown University Makoko, a community on the mainland of Lagos, is one of the places threatened with demolition. Its residents, who originated from coastal communities in the Niger Delta, Benin, Togo and Ghana, claim to have occupied the area since the early 1900s. Half of the population resides in…