Africa in Fact Issue 45
Big cities are changing how Africans live
Big cities appear to have a positive impact on food security and access to drinking water, but they also have a reconfiguring effect on families African cities are on the rise, and the impact of these is only starting...
EDITORIAL: Africa’s Megacities: boom or bust
Regular readers of Africa in Fact will recall our edition on local government (April 2016), which established a new template for the journal, with more space for articles and an attractive design based on high-quality...
The politics of service delivery in African cities
Due to the economic relevance and growing concentration of voters in African cities, these territorial entities represent sites of intense political competition Urbanisation represents one of the main demographic...
Land grabs and muggers
Surging crime and broken dreams reveal the underbelly of this rapidly expanding east African capital Michael Mwaura graduated from the University of Nairobi’s School of Business in 2009 and within two months secured a...
A downward spiral of public services
Vested political interests have made it impossible for Harare’s mayor to implement a business strategy he believed would turn around service delivery in the city Zimbabwe’s local government system was once considered...
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