Bolaji Alonge | Beautiful Disaster

BEAUTIFUL DISASTER exposes the total neglect of rural communities in the march towards urbanization and globalization. They have been left behind and are now held hostage by the consequences of a race to modernity. Deep inside Epe, along the Lagos lagoon, more than 145 villages are tucked away far from the bustling city life. Women are giving birth depending on nature and their children are growing up, waiting for power and education, hoping for the future. Basic sanitation is absent since the source of drinking water, the lagoon, also serves as the main conduit for waste disposal. Lagos State, a vast expanse of lagoons, creeks and estuaries with substantial coastal terrain is both a place of interest and enigma.