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).