• Simone Cupido

AirBnb is making the idea of a liveable, walkable city unattainable, while deepening inequality and decimating local industries.

• Rachel Dubale

The planned demolition of one of Ethiopia’s most vibrant cultural centers forms part of an urban planning trend where African cities are re-designed to serve elites.

• Yirga Gelaw Woldeyes

Successive Ethiopian governments have continued a 'modernizing' project that not only offers people false dreams, but actively dislocates them from the things that gave them purpose in the past.

• Paul T. Clarke

In his new book ‘The Blinded City,’ Matthew Wilhelm-Solomon takes readers into inner city Johannesburg not as it was or could be, but as it is.

• Naipanoi Lepapa

On the back of a failed COP26 climate conference: how e-waste dumping by European countries in Africa contribute significantly to climate change.

• Boima Tucker

Africa Is a Country Radio continues its season focused on African club culture. Our next stop is Lagos. Listen here and on Worldwide FM.

• Rasna Warah

Cities will continue to exist and grow despite the coronavirus crisis because of the distinctly human need for social interaction, physical contact, and collaboration.

• Akin Adeṣọkan

Lateef K. Jakande, also known as Baba Kekere, was the first civilian governor of Nigeria’s Lagos State.

• Mohamed Duale
• Jabril Abdullahi

Exploring the different neighborhoods within Mogadishu raises the question: who is this city really for?

• Olutimehin Adegbeye

Try being a single woman in Nigeria.

• Ini Dele-Adedeji