cities
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...
Running out of road
Lagos is arguably the most challenging Nigerian state to run, but it is also the most attractive in which to run for governor “Wherever you are in this country, in fact on this continent, there’s no place like Lagos,”...
Turning challenges into opportunities
African city governments face complex challenges, but they have many good governance tools at their disposal Cities are a recent phenomenon in Africa. In 1950, there was not a single city with a population of over one...
Nourishing Africa’s urban transition
For the most part, urban farming in African cities is a livelihood strategy without official sanction or acknowledgement According to the UN Population Division, the proportion of Africans living in urban centres will...
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