The impact of urbanisation in Africa, explained – BBC Africa

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The impact of urbanisation in Africa, explained – BBC Africa


The urban population in Africa is growing faster than anywhere else in the world. Urbanisation can contribute to poverty reduction and increased development, but it can also pose major challenges. The main one is access to clean water and sanitation.

Yemisi Adegoke explains.

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  1. From north to south Africa,60% of the buildings are constructed illegally.There is no urbanization strategy,just bribe for the local authorities.

  2. I wish Africa was free of Islam, Christianity, colonization and slave trading. All of these have undermined African countries and the ability of their peoples to be self-sufficient and successful.

  3. The nice thing to see is that all the scientists and specialists they had in this looked to be african themselves, im glad it's improving over there even if slowly. As a side note, i think it's time the governments of the world came together and regulated the water industry, companies like evian and dasani, make a fortune selling water, while millions of people have no access to water at all. What gives these companies the rights to water, that they can sell it.

  4. Yeah urbanization is the issue. Not years of British colonization, American slavery, Chinese and Canadian mining or all the other rape and torture of their land and peoples they endured with no compensation or help to fix what was raped from them, destroyed and stolen. Hey Brits, here's an idea, why don't you start the process by giving back all the stolen cultural artifacts you still profit from at your museum at the very LEAST. Love how BBC is constantly reporting about what's wrong in the places their culture destroyed.

  5. These Africans need to stay in Africa and should stop coming to beautiful countries like Cyprus. The Africans are ruining this once wonderful country.. Go back home!!!

  6. Nigeria must be so wealthy. In the last 30 years the population has more than doubled! While in much of Europe the population is declining because people cannot afford to have children. 🤔

  7. It boils down to …. To many people… not enough production. The government has not encouraged education and self reliance. If the government hands you food and water…. amount of children doesn’t matter… in fact, maybe you can increase your income by increasing amount of children. If parents have the responsibility of feeding their children…. they will limit amount of children.

  8. Honestly , its the 21st century for gods sake. How humans in 2022 can't figure out the basics like clean drinking water is utterly amazing. Too many years of Africa blaming others for their complete incompetence instead of buckling down and getting organized and getting to work.