Africa: When Shelter Becomes a Luxury

5 April 2010

Lagos — One of the basic needs of life is shelter. Man, as a sentient being, needs to rest after daily and endless struggles for survival. But as his needs continue to proliferate, so thus securing where to lay his head becomes more intractably elusive. The recent crisis of shelter in Africa, and some parts of the world is becoming a serious burden for both the government and the governed-the former extenuates its inability to provide decent accommodation for her people on lack of resources-while the later resolves to personal search for abode.

Nigeria, the most populated country in Africa, has Lagos as its commercial capital with a bourgeoning population of more than 17 million people cutting across over 250 ethnic Nigerian groups within its water-limited space. As the population continues to grow so it's intractably enmeshed in social paradox and contradictions; this is daily evidenced in the antagonistic struggle between the rich and the poor in most of the urban areas in the world.

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