Johannesburg in South Africa and São Paulo in Brazil offer useful insights into how cities in the global south should be managed.
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African cities need institutions that can adapt, transparent decision making, and collaboration with civil society and the private sector.
People want technology that supports them and eases their struggles. The technology must be controlled by the community and enhance people’s daily lives.
It’s time to rethink how Africa’s public spaces are defined and designed – by listening to how people already make cities public.
Forced eviction is not a solution to the growth of slums.
Periodic flooding in Kinshasa is a symptom of uncontrolled urbanisation.
Kumasi was once considered among west Africa’s greenest cities.
There’s been an increase in the amount of runoff generated from rainfall as land is altered by settlement and deforestation.
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Research associate at African Centre for Cities, University of Cape Town
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Director of the Regional School of Water and the Congo Basin Water Resources Research Center (CRREBaC), University of Kinshasa
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Professor of Water Risk, University of Leeds
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Lecturer in Hydrology, University of Kinshasa
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Senior Lecturer, Department of Planning, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST)
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Senior Lecturer, Department of Planning, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST)
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Associate Professor of Urban & Environmental Design, University of Khartoum
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Consultant in Hydrology and Water Resources, Kenya citizen, Visiting Research Fellow, King's College London
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Professor of Information Systems, University of the Witwatersrand
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Lecturer, Crawford University