Urban Africa by numbers (0)
1/02/12 •
By Edward Paice Everyone knows that Nairobi’s Kibera district is the largest ‘informal settlement’, or slum, in sub-Saharan Africa. At least, they used to know. Politicians, journalists, NGOs and urban planning professionals routinely declared that 700,000 – 1,000,000 people lived in Kibera. But when the district was geo-statistically mapped for the first time in 2009 its population [...]
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Walking the City with Dinaw Mengestu & Teju Cole (0)
1/12/12 •
By Jenny Doubt ‘Our memories… are like a river cut off from the ocean. With time they will slowly dry out in the sun, and so we drink and drink and drink and we can never have our fill.’ (Dinaw Mengestu, The Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears, 9.) James Joyce played one of my first [...]
The middle born syndrome (0)
1/11/12 •
By Vera Bukachi It is widely agreed that the speed and growth of cities is a very real and present issue. The megacity in particular – African cities like Lagos and Cairo, with more than 10 million people – evoke imagery associated with rapid urbanisation: the proliferation of crowded slums, the chronic shortage of amenities [...]
Water, Sanitation and African Cities (0)
1/10/12 •
By Jill Gibson In the media the predominate visual image of water shortages and drought in Africa tends to depict the rural context. While there is no doubt that images of a woman at a dry well or river bed or photos of emaciated cattle do reflect the lives of many people in rural areas, [...]
terra nulla? Mapping HIV/AIDS in South and East Africa (0)
1/02/12 •
By Jenny Doubt One of the most influential factors on the AIDS epidemic in Africa is the massive rural-to-urban migration that is taking place in its midst. As such, urban metaphors have often been used to describe the spread of the HIV/AIDS virus. Along with the actual mechanisms of the city: ports, long-distance truck [...]
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