Fig 1: A part of Ajegunle slum in Lagos Source: Google Image From Kiberia in Kenya to Mombasa in Uganda to Otumara in Lagos: these are communities with the same degrading characteristics such as open sewers, lack of access to piped water, no/bad roads where existent, lack of adequate educational facilities and health care centers. Kennedy Odede ‘Inspired by a book’ Co- author of his beautiful book about slums ‘Find me Unafraid’ Kennedy Odede tells his story about how he sur

According to UN-HABITAT, about a third (32%) of the world’s expected population dwell in slums or places characterized as one; a projection that by 2030, about 1.7 billion people will be living in slums in under developed countries. Nigeria has hundreds of slums in the country; this is because at least every state has an average of five slums with Lagos having as much as ten slums such as Makoko, Ajegunle, Bariga, Badia, Mushin, Ebute-metta, Otodo-Gbame etc. Slums occur throu