Water Get No Enemy | A Photo Essay from Lagos Nigeria

Photo Galleries | Posted Jun 5, 2008

Program: Discourse

Water Get No Enemy | A Photo Essay from Lagos, Nigeria Samuel James & Padden Guy Murphy Samuel James is a junior at Tufts University in the combined degree program with the School of Museum of Fine Arts Boston. He is a member of the inaugural class of Synaptic Scholars of the Institute for Global Leadership, Tufts University, as well as a member of the Institute’s photojournalism and human rights group EXPOSURE. In January 2007, Samuel traveled to Lagos, Nigeria to research the megacity as his Synaptic project. Padden Guy Murphy (A&S 2009) is Discourse’s founding editor and an IGL Synaptic Scholar majoring in International Relations and Chinese. He also co-founded the civil-military relations initiative ALLIES (Alliance Linking Leaders in Education and the Services), and is a member of Tufts University’s improvisational comedy troupe Cheap Sox. His home and family are in Great Falls, Montana.

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Water Get No Enemy

Children retrieve water from a community borehole in Makoko. It is estimated that fewer than 5 percent of Lagosians have direct access to municipal water supplies.

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Water Get No Enemy

A man rakes waste from a drainage canal in Badia. Throughout Lagos, stagnant canals packed with refuse and human waste result in severe overflow during flood season.