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Nigerian-born architect Kunlé Adeyemi, who will speak at USC Wednesday night, garnered global attention for his ‘Makoko Floating School,’ a prototypical structure built for the people of Makoko, a slum on water with nearly 100,000 residents in the lagoon at the heart of Lagos. The school-come-community center, made out of local materials including recycled floating barrels, lasted around three years. A stronger version was then built for the 15th Venice Biennale. The project is part of a study – ‘African Water Cities’ – underway at…