Big cities are changing how Africans live
Big cities appear to have a positive impact on food security and access to drinking water, but...
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Category: AIF Issue 45
EDITORIAL: Africa’s Megacities: boom or bust
Regular readers of Africa in Fact will recall our edition on local government (April 2016), which...
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The politics of service delivery in African cities
Due to the economic relevance and growing concentration of voters in African cities, these...
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Land grabs and muggers
Surging crime and broken dreams reveal the underbelly of this rapidly expanding east African...
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A downward spiral of public services
Vested political interests have made it impossible for Harare’s mayor to implement a business...
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Running out of road
Lagos is arguably the most challenging Nigerian state to run, but it is also the most attractive...
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Sidelined by policymakers
The ANC and previous regimes have all seen rural areas as more deserving of attention and...
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Where justice is measured in dollars
Kinshasa is set to become one of Africa’s largest megacities by 2030, but its land governance is...
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Turning challenges into opportunities
African city governments face complex challenges, but they have many good governance tools at...
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Cities: why simplistic, topdown interventions will fail
New Urban Worlds: Inhabiting Dissonant Times by AbdouMaliq Simone and Edgar Pieterse, Polity...
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Living on the periphery
The African middle class isn’t strong enough to drive the economic development required to cope...
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Nourishing Africa’s urban transition
For the most part, urban farming in African cities is a livelihood strategy without official...
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