| She began dribbling as a child in the alleyways of the shantytown where she and her six siblings live. |
| Her ethnography is the result of more than a decade of fieldwork done in the 1990s in one of Rio's urban shantytown communities. |
| It's right where the shantytown used to be, ringed by businesses and middle-class homes. |
| The old shantytown kinds of houses disappeared slowly and were replaced by modern buildings. |
| Living in difficult conditions, such as a shantytown, presupposes energy and talent. |
| In the evening, Akeem goes back to Makoko, a shantytown on the edge of Lagos. |
