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Billboard tenants: The invisible Lagosians who sleep, give birth, live in the open

Billboard tenants: The invisible Lagosians who sleep, give birth, live in the open
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In the restless megacity of Lagos, where skyscrapers rise and traffic never fully sleeps, more than 20,000 residents exist without a permanent roof. They are known, in local parlance, as “billboard tenants.” The name captures a stark reality: people who have no fixed address, no tenancy agreement...

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