The Black Infrastructural Life of Sedimentary Circulations
Dele Adeyemo
In this third essay in the e-flux In Common series, The Black Infrastructural Life of Sedimentary Circulations, Dele Adeyemo focuses on the lagoon divers, the workers who manually extract the sand feeding the urban expansion of Lagos, the Nigerian megalopolis. Their action reveals the violent interweaving between, on the one hand, the formal, speculative and productive structures of urban development, and on the other hand, the informal existence of a vulnerable population that feeds it.
