Beach to house Africa's next big walled city AFRICA'S cities are running out of land, prompting a real estate developer here to erect what might be Africa's ritziest district on a beach long known as a haven for day labourers and beer tipplers. The shacks that crowded the shoreline called Bar Beach are gone, replaced by construction tents. Families who squatted here were evicted. For the past four years, a Lebanese-Nigerian property developer has hosed sand into the ocean, creating new land for planned jogging paths, yacht jetties and condominiums with helipads for 250,000 opulent Nigerians.