A mother sits with her young child in a chair in the Ijora Badia demolition site, the only remains of her home and business. All she has left is her child and the clothes on her back. She doesn’t know where she will go to start her life over again. Lagos periodically razes vast slum communities furthering ambition to become a “model megacity,” pushed by internationally-fêted governor, Babatunde Fashola. Some 1 million have been displaced, activist groups say. The latest demolition took place, without warning, on February 23, 2013, displacing 10,000 in the Ijora Badia community, and the ruins were still piled high throughout the following week, with suddenly homeless families sleeping on muddy ground, trawling for possessions in heaps of debris, saying they had nowhere to go.