This is Coal Camp Enugu, a colonial outpost developed by the British coal mining company for housing numerous coal miners and their families. Coal Camp is more than 100 years old. The wonderful thing about coal camp is the planning. This is one of the most planned layouts in Nigeria. All streets here runs in straight lines. All drainages marked out while every house is designed to house multiple families in rows of rooms.
The draw back is the poor spacing between each house or street which presents the whole place as cramped and airless. Because of the high number of people squeezed into multiple rooms in each house, sanitary habits are poor. Coal camp is now a home for the poorest of the poor.
A view of Coal Camp from the air.
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