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Every family—including Sothea and his wife, who took in six children—got its own wooden house, built Cambodian-style on stilts on a leafy riverside property Johnson purchased in Phnom Penh.

The trail eventually took me into the waterways of Makoko, one of the city's poorest districts, where wooden houses balanced on stilts rise on the edge of Lagos Lagoon.

"That is rubbish on stilts," he said, adding: "We can't have our cake and eat it. We will have to choose."

“I went to them and said, ‘Hey, can we have one of those stilt walkers?’” says Slash, referring to the larger-than-life lurkers who haunt guests during the festivities.

As Times assistant sports editor Houston Mitchell wrote, “Might as well bring in the stilts guy from the Savannah Bananas to pitch.”