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- Feature / South AfricaBrett Petzer and Rashiq Fataar of Future Cape Town assess the influences and confluences of connection in Cape Town’s spatial, institutional and economic landscape.
- Feature / AngolaThis academic commentary complements Claudia Gastrow’s series of articles on the Angolan capital of Luanda for Urban Africa’s reporting project and deepens the questions raised in them. In it, Sylvia Croese calls for an approach to the study of African cities that recognizes the emergence of new, multiple, sometimes contradictory, and ever changing urbanisms that arise in the space between state...
- Feature / KenyaIn Kenya’s capital, the informal sector is closely tied to the formal economy. As the city heads toward world-class status, policymakers will need to make careful decisions about how best to accommodate the informal sector, writes Sheila Kamunyori.
- Feature / South AfricaMargot Rubin explains why Johannesburg is not just a fragmented, post-Apartheid city caught in a neo-liberal trap but also a highly desirable space in which residents constantly contest, battle and push to mine the resources.
- Feature / NigeriaRigid planning and development controls in Abuja, Nigeria's modern capital, have served to exclude population groups deemed 'unworldy' from the city-proper.
- Feature / RwandaPhoto: Kigali master plan. Thomas Goodfellow. The Rwandan government has ambitious yet deeply disruptive plans to rebuild Kigali as Africa's Singapore. Despite plans to uproot vast swathes of the city to make way for 'virtual Kigali,' the response by ordinary city-dwellers has been one of striking silence, writes Thomas Goodfellow. (Article originally published at openDemocracy.net).
- FeatureState ambitions to build a 'global' Dakar alongside a proliferation of diaspora-financed luxury development, highlights the fraught nature of belonging in a city where everyday life is marked by migration, economic reform and inequality, writes openDemocracy's Caroline Melly.
- Story / BotswanaDocumentary film explores Gaborone, a city whose planners desire to make it more accessible to residents and more distinctive in Southern Africa.
- Feature / South AfricaFuture Cape Town's Pamela Hellig shows that Cape Town could learn lessons from London about shared space, historical markers, city communication, accessible art and culture, and fresh produce markets.
- Feature / EgyptEgypt has a rich history of modernist architecture but western scholars are reluctant to consider Egyptian contributions to modernism, argues Cairobserver's Mohamed Elshahed.
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