Africa: Turning Challenges Into Opportunities

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African city governments face complex challenges, but they have many good governance tools at their disposal

Cities are a recent phenomenon in Africa. In 1950, there was not a single city with a population of over one million in Africa; today there are around 50. Many of the continent's burgeoning cities - among them Accra, Nairobi, Lagos and Johannesburg - swelled in the second half of the last century. Lagos's population grew five-fold between 1960 and 1990.

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