I highly recommend this short film, “After the Bulldozers,” about the fate of 10,000 residents displaced after a thriving market in Ajelogo, a neighborhood in Lagos, Nigeria, was destroyed by local authorities. The film is told through the perspective of one of the residents.

The director is Charles “Stretch” Ledford, a University of Miami communications student and working photographer. On the film’s vimeo page, it is described as: “Since 1997, Funmilayo Omotosho lived and worked in a market in Ajelogo, a neighborhood in Lagos, Nigeria. For reasons not made public, the Lagos State Government ordered the Ajelogo market to be destroyed during the early morning hours of March 7, 2010. More than 10,000 residents and vendors were displaced. With her business, home, and community in ruins, and with nowhere else to go, Fumilayo still lives in Ajelogo, amidst the ruins of her home and business.”

Be sure to also check out Ledford’s work on Overtown, a black working-class neighborhood of Miami.)