Water Baby

<p><b>''Men are like rock, but women are water. Quiet and calming or powerful and flowing . . . Be like water and you can break any rock''</b><br><br>She''s the Pearl of Makoko and the world is her oyster.<br><br>Yemoja is most at home on the water, like her namesake, the mermaid goddess, she''s a true Water Baby. Maybe that''s why everyone calls her Baby for short. Baby lives on Makoko, across from the third mainland bridge in Lagos. To the government it''s an eyesore where there could be lucrative waterfront properties, to the Laotians, it''s a slum settlement but to the people who live there, it''s Adogbo, home.<br><br>Baby is used to the way things are, but she can''t help but think that the life her father and elders have mapped out for her isn''t the right thing. At 19 Baby should be married with children already, according to her father, but instead, she captains her water taxi The Charlie-Boy to have an income and to help uphold her household. What she really wants is education