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The Human City Project shares skills and technologies that allow the people of Port Harcourt’s slums to plan together and build better a future.

[CMAP @cmapping]

Tools for building African cities: pen; soldering iron. Our journalists are electrical engineers; our mappers are musicians; our musicians are planners; our planners are mothers. We share the tools they need: #ChicocoMapsCinemaSpaceStudiosRadioChicoco

[CMAP @cmapping]

If a hurricane tore through a European city, flattened 15 city blocks and displaced 22,000 people, it would be headline news. This is #NotANaturalDisaster.

Proud @chicocoradio are sharing #VoicesFromTheStreet.

Look, listen to their work. Share it.

@Make_TheShift @leilanifarha

[Chicoco Radio @chicocoradio]

Elizabeth’s mother built a house. Fire burnt it down.
Elizabeth rebuilt it. The governor sent in bulldozers.

Nothing you see here exists anymore. Apart from the people. The people remain.

#EndForcedEvictionsNow
#PortHarcourt #Nigeria

@AmnestyNigeria @witness_africa

[CMAP @cmapping]

Slum clearance is slum creation. Surely this is obvious?

Tens of thousands of people who live and work in this city, contributing their skills and services, are scrambling to find somewhere to sleep tonight.

When they find shelter, will the governor send the bulldozers again?

[Chicoco Radio @chicocoradio]

This has been one of the hardest stories our crew has covered: the demolition of our own communities.

Every day, the bulldozers have taken more ground. Almost all of #DiobuWaterfront has now been erased.

Tell @GovWike to #EndForcedEvictionsNow.

#PortHarcourt #PeopleLiveHere

[CMAP @cmapping]

Port Harcourt: oil capital of Nigeria.
Nigeria: wealthiest nation on the continent.
2050: Nigeria is the world's 3rd most populous nation; 212 million more city-dwellers - 80% in communities like the ones just bulldozed.

This is a struggle for the future of the city.

[Chicoco Radio @chicocoradio]

This is #NotANaturalDisaster: over 5000 displaced; the area of 5 city blocks flattened as bulldozers advance with the force of a tsunami.

Unlike a tsunami, the governor can halt the bulldozers.
Tell @GovWike to #EndForcedEvictionsNow

#PortHarcourt, as of 11am 01.02.22

[CMAP @cmapping]

The making and unmaking of the city: as the governor bulldozes communities and their histories, the work of #ChicocoRadio journalists and #ChicocoMaps researchers is testament to the creativity of people in Port Harcourt's self-built waterfront settlements.

[Chicoco Radio @chicocoradio]

Today, Martha packed up her room, with her mother and her child and left her home to the bulldozers.

Martha lost her home, not her voice.

Read her story here:

⚡️ https://t.co/cZtp5Yj78h ⚡️

[Chicoco Radio @chicocoradio]

The governor declared he would demolish our communities.
We came out in protest.
He sent in the police and bulldozers.
12 people detained; over 2000 people made homeless; 58,000 at risk.

#ElechiWaterfront #PortHarcourt:
#PeopleLiveHere #EndForcedEvictions

[Chicoco Radio @chicocoradio]

Elechi Phase 1, Port Harcourt, Nigeria
BEFORE: 2000 residents: fishermen, civil servants, traders, teachers, school kids, musicians; a community.

AFTER: 2000 pushed into homelessness, poverty, insecurity; a wasteland.
#PeopleLiveHere #HousingIsAHumanRight #EndForcedEvictions

[The Loeb Fellowship @LoebFellowship]

Returning to Nigeria to produce a film about oil, Michael Uwemedimo found a society in extreme circumstances. Together with residents he developed infrastructures of light and voice, new ways of supporting overlooked communities. https://t.co/jTUTLlVPWo @chicocoradio; @cmapping

[Chicoco Radio @chicocoradio]

Have you signed up for the first ever Sustainable Favela Network International Exchange? Join us at 2pm WAT as some of our participants discuss how we implement socio-environmental programs & climate justice in waterfront communities of #PortHarcourt 🌎 https://t.co/tT29gpRo9J

[Chicoco Radio @chicocoradio]

⚡🇳🇬🎙️🎸❤️🥁📻🇬🇧⚡ We're going to make some new friends. And a lot of noise: 🚀🎺 @3333label @Balamii @cmapping @SouthernAfrArts

[CMAP @cmapping]

This is powerful programme-making in support of a powerful protest movement.

⚡️Tune in!⚡️Stay tuned: @chicocoradio #EndSARS

[Chicoco Radio @chicocoradio]

In the streets, struggling to reimagine Nigeria. Some paid with their lives.

👉🏽⚡️📻⚡️: https://t.co/eTVh5P8DdB

#EndSARS
#Nigeria🇳🇬

@AmnestyNigeria
#LongRoadTogetheIn the streets, struggling to reimagine Nigeria. Some paid with their lives.

👉🏽⚡️📻⚡️: https://t.co/eTVh5P8DdB

#EndSARS
#Nigeria🇳🇬

@AmnestyNigeria
#LongRoadTogetheIn the streets, struggling to reimagine Nigeria. Some paid with their lives.

👉🏽⚡️📻⚡️: https://t.co/eTVh5P8DdB

#EndSARS
#Nigeria🇳🇬

@AmnestyNigeria
#LongRoadTogether

[Barbara Summers @Barbasaurus_Rex]

Really excited to share some of the work of our #citizenscience air quality monitoring project led by the #ChicocoMaps team.

Let us know if you are interested in learning more or helping us expand our citizen science project!

[CMAP @cmapping]

With the maker of @Push_TheFilm and global director of @Make_TheShift, the crew at #ChicocoRadio talk
🎙️ and sing 🎸 about urban informality, violent dispossession, passionate advocacy, the human right to housing , music making and movement building. https://t.co/y6lcarxO8a

[Fredrik Gertten @FredrikGertten]

Love to our friends at @chicocoradio in Port Harcourt, Nigeria. Feel their energy in the new episode of PUSHBACK Talks.
@burnaboy this is your people, fighting corruption and violence. @anticorruption @TransparencyUK @robertoperez40

[CMAP @cmapping]

This is strong, subtle and very funny! Authentic, immersive, intelligent programme making.
⚡😷🙏🏾⚡

[Chicoco Radio @chicocoradio]

In a raging pandemic, in a crowded congregation: Blaze is forced to choose between losing her faith and losing her mask.

How are religious leaders impacting public health policy and practice?

A powerful and hilarious audio story on #ViralTimes. Listen Now!

[Chicoco Radio @chicocoradio]

Tune in. Listen up: #ViralTimes on Dublin Digital Radio at 12pm GMT today. ⚡✊🏾🎙️✊🏾⚡❤️📻❤️🚀

[CMAP @cmapping]

#JustCities #SustainableCities: with her guitar and bike, Denny reminds us that finding new ways to speak about and move about our cities can be fun. Even with soldiers in the streets...

[Chicoco Radio @chicocoradio]

Denny Tunez, on her bike and with her guitar, shares scenes of casual military brutality on the streets through the pandemic.

Beautiful to listen to. Terrible to imagine.

#EndSecurityForceImpunity #EndSARS means #JusticeNOW #WeWontForget

[CMAP @cmapping]

On #ViralTimes we work with #BeautifulPeople making
#BeautifulThings in a #ToughToughCity

[Chicoco Radio @chicocoradio]

Reading in the Dark: Part 1

PHOTO-ESSAY: We can't take the light for granted. Nothing beautiful here is easy.

#NewOnViralTimes

https://t.co/cZtp5Yj78h

[CMAP @cmapping]

We know what design can do and so does @WhatDesignCanDo

@chicocoradio #BetterByDesign

[What Design Can Do @WhatDesignCanDo]

“This is not science fiction. This is not the news. We speak to you from the slums at the edge of the world. We speak to you from the middle of a pandemic,” reads the manifesto for #ViralTimes, a new storytelling platform by @chicocoradio. Read more 👇 https://t.co/hEljCsitrr

[CMAP @cmapping]

#ViralTimes: scenes from the #RealCity and dreams from the #CityYetToCome. #MediaThatMatters: Tune in!

[Chicoco Radio @chicocoradio]

We’re live! #ViralTimes: unheard voices from Nigeria's oil capital - photo essays, radio features, articles, music, maps and more. #StoriesFromTheSlums

https://t.co/q6ypb9aUd0

[CMAP @cmapping]

#ChicocoRadio: city builders; storytellers; newsmakers. Proud to work with you through #ViralTimes

[Chicoco Radio @chicocoradio]

Check back in with us tomorrow for the launch of #Nigeria’s new multimedia storytelling platform: untold stories from the heart of the city; unheard voices from the middle of a pandemic, and now state-sponsored violence on the streets. #ViralTimes #PandemicStories #PHCity

[Chicoco Radio @chicocoradio]

In #NigerianCities, 78% of people are aged 35 or under. Most live in 'informal settlements', at the centre of the city but the edge of the conversation. Now online and on the streets: making ourselves seen and heard. #AfricanVoices #UrbanStories #EndSARSNow