How to build 500m affordable African homes
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Decades after independence, millions of Africans still do not enjoy decent housing.
Onyekachi Wambu introduces a special report that brings together experts and critical stakeholders in the African affordable housing ecosystem to provide insights on how to tackle the crisis facing the African housing market.
At Independence, the expectation for most Africans was that they would enjoy political rights, which would in turn ensure that they would create just societies and successfully run economies where they could enjoy employment, good education, healthcare and decent housing.
However, as we know, the continent is facing crisis in all of those areas. The focus of our special report, Housing a Continent, is on decent, affordable homes, with the drift from the country to cities and Africa’s rapid demographic growth driving demand. According to UN-Habitat, a billion more Africans will be living in cities by 2050.
Housing is at heart of social change in Africa – UN-Habitat
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The 100 Most Influential Africans of 2020
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annus horribilis of all the
anni horribiles in living memory, but it has produced no less a field of outstanding contenders for
New African‘s selection of the 100 Most Influential Africans of the year.
New African editor
The December-January issue of
New African contains our selection of the 100 Most Influential Africans of 2020. As usual, we expect our selection this year to generate quite a bit of talk – social distancing permitting – and delight at finding someone you admire making the list could be tempered by disappointment that the figure you are positive should be there is not.