Mar 18, 2024 | Commentary
By Adewumi Badiora, ACRC Lagos safety and security domain lead Lagos is the most populous city in Africa and a regional economic giant, having west Africa’s busiest seaport. It is the centre of commercial and economic activities in Nigeria. The city’s population is...
Mar 15, 2024 | Commentary, Research
Guest blog by Felix Agyemang, lecturer in spatial data science at The University of Manchester, and Sean Fox, associate professor in global development at the University of Bristol According to UN estimates, the global urban population will increase by 2.5 billion...
Mar 12, 2024 | Commentary, Research
By Tom Goodfellow At a time when funding for urban infrastructure and the promotion of an overarching global goal – the hard-won SDG 11 – have catapulted cities up the international policy agenda, it’s hard to believe that urban issues could ever have been considered...
Mar 11, 2024 | News, Research
ACRC has published new research into the challenges facing informal settlement residents in seven African cities: Accra, Ghana; Dar es Salaam, Tanzania; Freetown, Sierra Leone; Harare, Zimbabwe; Kampala, Uganda; Lilongwe, Malawi; and Mogadishu, Somalia. Informal...
Feb 14, 2024 | News, Research
By Abdifatah Tahir The UTA-Do 2024 event marked a significant gathering of scholars, practitioners, and activists dedicated to expanding and deepening the discourse on urban Africa. Held at Ardhi University and Friedrich Ebert Stiftung in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, this...
