1. Affordable Housing In Africa
In 2011, UNHABITAT reported a research about Affordable land and housing in Africa. The research showed that o nly four out of every ten Africans currently lives in an urban area, the lowest ratio in the world. However, over the coming fifteen years, cities in Africa will, every day, become home to at least another 40,000 people. The study discovered that growth in African countries is concentrated in cities and recent growth in major African cities was phenomenal: Between 2005 and 2010 Lagos grew by 1.8 million people, Kinshasa by 1.6 million and Luanda by 1.2 million. In terms of proportional growth, Abuja doubled in size (51.7 per cent), Ouagadougou grew by 43.7 per cent and Luanda by 35.0 per cent in the same five-year period. There are, however, vast differences in the level of urbanization of African countries. Only 11.0 per cent of the population in Burundi lives in cities, and only 13.3 per cent in Uganda whereas, in contrast, 86.0 percent of the population of Gabon and 8...