Shackled and nameless were Africans thrown into the ocean. The waves swallowed their cries, erased their faces but not their suffering. Their chained bodies left unburied in floating waves of salt and silence. Their bones lining the ocean floor. 

Lagos drowns in its waste. Plastics choke waterways, soil turns toxic, and the lagoon dies. Floods and disease follow, reminding humans that the environment always returns the damage done to it.