Children of the tide 01

Image shows native child of the displaced people of Tarkwa bay Island off the coast of Lagos. Once, the shores of Tarkwa Bay rang with laughter — children racing through the surf, learning, dreaming, living freely by the sea. Then came the eviction. Homes were destroyed, families scattered, and classrooms washed away like footprints in the tide. Even in displacement, their spirit endures. In makeshift shelters, they study by lantern light, determined to learn, to rise. This photograph captures not just play, but defiance — a reminder that though their world was taken, their hope still runs wild and unbroken, like the ocean that raised them.

Uploaded on 18 October 2025.