Qualla: Eko Atlantic https://qualla.com/eko-atlantic en-us © 2026 Bendyline Mon, 20 Jul 2026 10:21:29 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/s/1/4/k/eko-atlantic-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Eko Atlantic https://qualla.com/eko-atlantic Eko Atlantic: Introduction https://qualla.com/eko-atlantic/ Photo credit Koutchika Lihouenou Gaspard, CC BY-SA 4.0. For decades, the Atlantic Ocean ate Lagos's shoreline at a rate of thirty meters per year. Sand nourishment programs that began around 1960 could not keep pace -- the beach kept retreating no matter how much material was dumped onto it. Eko Atlantic is Nigeria's answer: a planned city rising on nine square kilometers of land reclaimed from the ocean itself, just off Bar Beach on the southern tip of Lagos. Officially named Nigeria International Commerce City, the project aims to house at least 250,000 residents, accommodate 150,000 daily commuters, and do what sixty years of stopgap measures could not -- hold the Atlantic at bay.

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]]> Tue, 24 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/1/4/k/eko-atlantic-wp/s14k-eko-atlantic-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Eko Atlantic: Building a City from the Seafloor https://qualla.com/eko-atlantic/ Photo credit SmartAfricanBoy, CC BY-SA 4.0. The scale of the engineering is hard to overstate. South Energyx Nigeria Ltd., a subsidiary of the Chagoury Group, leads the development as a public-private partnership with the Lagos State Government. China Communications Construction Group handles the dredging and landfill oper...

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]]> Tue, 24 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/1/4/k/eko-atlantic-wp/s14k-eko-atlantic-building-a-city-from-the-seafloor.mp3 0:06 2 full Eko Atlantic: A Self-Contained Metropolis https://qualla.com/eko-atlantic/ Photo credit T. Obi, CC BY 2.0. Eko Atlantic is planned not as a neighborhood but as a municipality in its own right -- with its own bureaucracy, its own energy supply, and its own offshore banking zone where investors can transfer money freely. The master plan includes commercial towers, residential blocks, ho...

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]]> Tue, 24 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/1/4/k/eko-atlantic-wp/s14k-eko-atlantic-a-self-contained-metropolis.mp3 0:06 3 full Eko Atlantic: The Cost of Holding Back the Sea https://qualla.com/eko-atlantic/ Photo credit T. Obi, CC BY 2.0. Not everyone sees Eko Atlantic as salvation. Residents of neighboring communities say that the construction itself has worsened coastal erosion and triggered ocean surges in areas the project was supposed to protect. In August 2012, the Atlantic surged over its banks, sweeping si...

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]]> Tue, 24 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/1/4/k/eko-atlantic-wp/s14k-eko-atlantic-the-cost-of-holding-back-the-sea.mp3 0:06 4 full Eko Atlantic: Land Rising, Questions Remaining https://qualla.com/eko-atlantic/ Photo credit Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung from Berlin, Deutschland, CC BY-SA 2.0. The tension at the heart of Eko Atlantic is one that Lagos confronts everywhere: how to build for the future of a city growing faster than its infrastructure can keep up, while protecting the people already living on the margins. The sea wall holds, the towers keep rising, and th...

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