ARI’s publication “Whatever happened to Africa’s rapid urbanisation?” by Dr Deborah Potts cited by IRIN News’ article “Africa: Challenging the urbanization myths”.
ARI’s publication “Why Africa can make it big in agriculture” by Stephen Mbithi cited by The Atlantic’s article “Africa’s amazing rise and what it can teach the world”.
ARI’s publication “Whatever happened to Africa’s rapid urbanisation?” by Dr Deborah Potts cited by Future Agricultures’ article “Urban myths and rural futures for Africa’s young people”.
Launch of “Whatever happened to Africa’s rapid urbanisation?” with a presentation by author Dr. Deborah Potts and response from Dr David Cowan of Citibank. Discussion chaired by Edward Paice. It is widely believed that urbanisation is occurring faster in...
Dr Deborah Potts, author of ARI publication “Whatever happened to Africa’s rapid urbanisation?” wrote an article for The Global Urbanist which questioned “Is Africa really rapidly urbanising?”
ARI’s publication “Whatever happened to Africa’s rapid urbanisation?” by Dr Deborah Potts cited by Africa Works article “Urbanization: An African urban myth?”
It is widely believed that urbanisation is occurring faster in sub-Saharan Africa than anywhere else in the world, as migrants move from rural to urban settlements. This is a fallacy. While the populations of numerous urban areas are growing rapidly, the urbanisation levels of...
