Lagos’ slum dwellers are excluded from decisions that affect them. 3 ways to change that: Lagos is a city of two halves: money dripping in the corridors of corporate offices, and stagnant water dripping in the slums that are home to over 20 million. Residents of informal settlements grapple with the daily challenges that come …
South African shack dwellers show how grassroots democracy is done: EFE-EPA/Nic Bothma Many of the recent debates about democracy in South Africa point to the danger of growing authoritarianism or stress how the country’s colonial and apartheid past continues to shape the present. But activist and scholar Trevor Ngwane has taken a different, innovative approach …
Policymakers have a lot to learn from slum dwellers: an Accra case study: More and more people are being drawn into slums in Ghana's capital city, Accra. Shutterstock A significant portion of people who migrate from rural to urban areas across Africa end up trapped in slums, where living conditions are characterised by overcrowding, poor …
How farm dwellers in South Africa think about home, land and belonging: Farm dwellers like Zabalaza Mshengu live in extremely precarious conditions. Association for Rural Advancement South Africa’s unemployment rate puts it in the bottom ten countries in the world. Hunger levels are growing. It has what Berkeley geography professor Gillian Hart calls a “population …