Oct 21, 2024 | Commentary, Research
By 2050, over half of Africa’s population will be under 25. While African cities offer the potential for jobs and innovation, they also face a growing crisis: the mental wellbeing of their young people. Drawing on ACRC’s youth and capability development research...
Jul 11, 2024 | News, Research
By 2050, half of Africa’s population will be under the age of 25. This makes young people key to development outcomes across the continent’s cities, with youth often regarded as the “makers or breakers” of the future. A new ACRC paper presents research into the...
Jun 4, 2024 | Commentary, News
Urban land in Africa is governed by a complex array of actors – spanning the public and private, formal and informal, local and international. With land governance remaining highly contested in this context, efforts to optimise systems or tackle injustices in African...
Jun 3, 2024 | News, Research
ACRC has published a new paper synthesising research findings from political settlements, city system and urban development domain analyses of Maiduguri, Nigeria. Domain research in the city focused on safety and security, land and connectivity and youth and...
May 9, 2024 | News, Research
ACRC has published new research, exploring land and connectivity in six African cities: Accra (Ghana), Bukavu (DRC), Kampala (Uganda), Harare (Zimbabwe), Maiduguri (Nigeria) and Mogadishu (Somalia). Urban land is a crucial economic, environmental and social resource...