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Mobility in Africa’s Future Megacities

Far from the fanciful discourse of flying cars and aerospace railways, urban planners say the issue of mobility in Africa’s future megacities, which will soon be among the world’s largest, requires a pragmatic approach.

While Asia currently has the majority of the world’s largest cities, Africa’s population is expected to reach 2.5 billion by 2050, with the most significant growth occurring in urban areas as people migrate to cities in search of work.

Lagos will be the world’s most populous city with 88 million inhabitants. Cities across Africa are already booming: In Nigeria and Ghana, more than half of the population now lives in cities. In East Africa, although countries are relatively less urbanised (30% in Rwanda, 26% in Kenya, 20% in Ethiopia), they have the highest urban growth rates on the continent.

“In Africa, urbanisation happens at an early stage of development. Cities are not as rich as Asian, European, and Latin American cities were when they went through strong urban growth,” says Philipp Rode, executive director at LSE Cities, a London-based international centre for urban studies.

African cities have specific structural features. As a consequence, the futures of Lagos, Kinshasa, Dar es Salaam, Khartoum, and Niamey look very different from today’s Tokyo, the world’s most populous city.

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