Ganvié

Lake City Of Africa

This is not a picture of a flood. This is Ganvié, in the Republic of Benin, the largest collection of lake dwellings in Africa. 20,000 People call Ganvié's stilt supported dwellings home. The city, in the middle of lake Nokoué, is not a recent construct however.
Ganvié is up to five hundred years old. Sometimes called the Venice of Africa, like the Italian city its first inhabitants set up home there out of sheer necessity.