Urbanisation is experienced through growing tensions within families over precious yet meagre plots of land.
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To secure health and wealth, many people combine elements from different religious traditions. One such movement is Chrislam.
Rural people mostly grew their own food. But in the city, the daily meal became a commodity to be bought and sold.
Men and women experience and try to cope with stress in diverse ways.
Young men in low-income communities in Cape Town and London often walk with great fear.
Colonial era records reveal the intersection of race and access to water in South Africa’s history.
Lubumbashi is little known, but its minerals electrified the world, created atom bombs and are key to greener energy, the defining geopolitical issue of our time.
Youth citizenship is a fluid identity that stretches beyond disappointment, protest or voting.
Protests in Kenya reveal that a young, enlightened, urban population can drive a hard bargain with a state that is failing them.
Cities are increasingly unsafe and unhealthy. Family planning can help curb unsustainable urbanisation.
Akinlawon Ladipo Mabogunje was Nigeria’s first professor of geography. He has died at 90.
The majority of planners believe that land is captured with impunity by powerful interest groups in Zambia and South Africa.
Parts of Nairobi are already dealing with temperature increases and reduction in humidity. These conditions are associated with increases in mortality, especially in children and the elderly.
The study of two hospitals was a first for researching the microbiology of the built environment in South Africa – a multi-disciplinary approach to understanding how to design healthier buildings.
Trouble in Africa’s cities is due to the fact that electoral competition drives leaders to be biased towards rural areas.
Constructing fancy ‘smart cities’ might not be the best solution for Africa’s rapidly urbanising populations.
In our urban world, turning the makeshift and the informal into the livable and sustainable is our greatest challenge.
The abandonment of crop farming fields isn’t new. But some researchers say it’s accelerated in the last two decades.
Old people in Nigeria’s cities can’t even rely on public transport.
Obesity is on the rise among urban African women of reproductive age in all of the 24 countries studied.
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Senior lecturer, African Population and Health Research Center
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Senior Researcher in Urban Food Security and Food Systems, University of Cape Town
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