Reframing the Urban Challenge in Africa Knowledge Co-production from the South

With the world’s fastest growing rates of urbanization, Africa’s urban population
has doubled in the last decade, and is predicted to increase threefold between 2010
and 2050 (UN-Habitat, 2014). Already home to seven megacities as well as a rapidly multiplying number of secondary cities, the transformation of this continent
formerly regarded as rural to one that is largely urban is undeniable (UNDESA,
2018).