{"id":865,"date":"2012-02-21T15:35:55","date_gmt":"2012-02-21T15:35:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/africaresearchinstitute.org\/wordpress\/?p=865"},"modified":"2016-03-10T14:37:13","modified_gmt":"2016-03-10T14:37:13","slug":"africa-works-21st-february-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/africaresearchinstitute.org\/wordpress\/africa-works-21st-february-2012\/","title":{"rendered":"Africa Works, 21 February 2012"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The London-based\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/africaresearchinstitute.org\/wordpress\/about-us.php\">Africa Research Institute<\/a>, a think tank, issued a shockingly contrarian report today on the \u201cfallacy\u201d of rapid urbanization in Africa. Of all the propositoons about contemporary Africa, rapid urbanization is perhaps the least contested. 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