African cities must address social, economic issues when upgrading slums

OLUMUYIWA ADEGUN IN SUB-SAHARAN Africa, over 55 percent of the urban population are estimated to live in areas categorised as slums and informal settlements. These slums and informal settlements are largely the physical manifestations of urban inequality, socially and economically. They embody the exclusion of poor urban households from cities’ formal economy and its environmental […]