African Cities | Finding Solutions to the Development

Watch authors Till Förster, Lucy Koechlin, Karen Büscher, Carole Ammann, George Owusu, Sebastian Prothmann, Florian Stoll, , Claudia Baez-Camargo, and Jane Anyango Odongo speak of the International Development Policy Journal’s 10th special issue, “African Cities and the Development Conundrum”, and their contributions to it.
This volume, published in 2018, presents a collection of articles exploring some of the complex development challenges associated with Africa's recent but extremely rapid pace of urbanisation that also challenges still predominant but misleading images of Africa as a rural continent. Analysing urban settings through the diverse experiences and perspectives of inhabitants and stakeholders in cities across the continent, the authors consider the evolution of international development policy responses amidst the unique historical, social, economic and political contexts of Africa's urban development.
Cite the volume: Ammann, C. and T. Förster (eds) (2018) African Cities and the Development Conundrum, International Development Policy | Revue internationale de politique de développement, No.10 (Geneva, Boston: Graduate Institute Publications, Brill-Nijhoff), https://doi.org/10.4000/poldev.2576.