Africa’s Mega-cities A Magnet For Investors

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Cairo - top 10 cities in Africa

 UNITED NATIONS, Jul 9 2019 (IPS) – Megacities, cities with a population of at least 10 million, are sprouting everywhere in Africa. Cairo in Egypt, Kinshasa in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and Lagos in Nigeria are already megacities, while Luanda in Angola, Dar es Salaam in Tanzania and Johannesburg in South Africa will attain the status by 2030, according to the United Nations.
Abidjan in Côte d’Ivoire and Nairobi in Kenya will surpass the 10 million thresholds by 2040. And by 2050 Ouagadougou in Burkina Faso, Addis Ababa in Ethiopia, Bamako in Mali, Dakar in Senegal and Ibadan and Kano in Nigeria will join the ranks—bringing the total number of megacities in Africa to 14 in about 30 years.
The number of people living in urban areas in Africa will double to more than 1 billion by 2042, according to the World Bank.
The University of Toronto’s Global Cities Institute, which monitors cities’ population growth and socio-economic development worldwide, forecasts that Lagos will be the largest city in the world by 2100, housing an astonishing 88 million people, up from 21 million currently.
Africa which is more or less as a whole part of the developing world is home to seven rapidly growing megacities:

Cairo (Egypt), Accra (Ghana), Johannesburg-Pretoria (South Africa), Khartum (Sudan), Kinshasa-Brazzaville (the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Republic of the Congo), Lagos (Nigeria) and Nairobi (Kenya).

Just one example for the rapid growth of these cities: Lagos has grown from 300,000 in 1950 to an estimated 15 million by 2007, and the Nigerian government estimates that city will have expanded to 25 million residents by 2015.

In South-Africa, the Greater Pretoria Metropolitan Council took advantage of a movement of renaming numerous places in South Africa by using indigenous African terms. It put forward a new African name for the larger urban area around the cities of Pretoria and Johannesburg: Tshwane, means "we are the same" and has been used in the area since before the Afrikaaner leader Andries Pretoriusnamed today's Pretoria after himself in the 19th century.

Resource: Wikipedia, BBC


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