African cities and societies Stories

African languages for AI: The project that’s gathering a huge new dataset
The Conversation  |  Oct 26, 2025

The challenge now is integration: making these pieces work together so that African languages are not just represented in isolated demos, but in real-...

City Hall admits past planning mistakes behind Nairobi’s transport crisis
Maureen Kinyanjui  |  Oct 08, 2025

Auma said transport plans from previous decades underestimated the role of non-motorised mobility and the shift to electric transport, leaving the cit...

African cities aren’t doing enough to adapt to climate change: Lessons from Durban and Harare
The Conversation  |  Sep 17, 2025

Cities need new ways to adapt to climate change. The current system of social, economic and political structures that cities are based on is built on...

Africa’s city planners must look to the Global South for solutions: Johannesburg and São Paulo offer useful insights
The Conversation  |  Aug 31, 2025

If housing is a residential public good and transport is a networked one, sanitation sits in between. It’s delivered to individual homes, but is relia...

Two in three Africans will live in cities by 2050: How planners can put this to good use
The Conversation  |  Aug 21, 2025

National policymakers must treat urbanisation not just as a city issue, but as a national priority.

Khartoum before the war: The public spaces that held Sudan's capital city together
The Conversation  |  Jun 15, 2025

In Sudan, conflict, displacement, and economic instability have further disrupted governance and reshaped the spatial fabric of urban life.

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