The Dar es Salaam Profiling Report is part of the African Cities Profiling project, which aims to enhance understanding of individual cities across the continent with a view to being able to allocate resources more...
African cities
(Re)centre youths in city planning
The African Union estimates that about 60% of Africa’s population will live in urban areas by 2030. This highlights the importance of urban spaces in the governance discourse. One of the unique elements of Africa’s...
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...
Africa’s developmental focus moves to the cities
Rapid urban growth in Africa means these city populations have become politically more important Why has it taken so long for the city to figure as a major factor in the developmental discourse around Africa? To answer...
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