Makoko is a historic waterfront community located on the Lagos Lagoon in Lagos, Nigeria, widely known for its stilt-house settlement and strong traditions of community self-organization. Inhabited primarily by fishing communities, Makoko has developed informal but resilient systems of collective governance to manage housing, livelihoods, and social life in the absence of consistent state services and under constant threat of eviction. Community leadership structures, associations, and grassroots organizing play a central role in decision-making, conflict resolution, and defense of the territory. Makoko represents an urban process of radical democracy rooted in commons-based living, community organizing, and struggles for housing rights and social justice in a megacity context.
| Creation date | 1900 |
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| Topics | Commons, Democracy, Rights, Social justice, Social change |
| Context | Urban |
| Typology | Community Organizing |
| Languages | English, Yoruba |
| Thematics | Radical Democracy |