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Introduction: Africa's urban challenge / Sylvia Croese -- The formal-informal interface through the lens of urban food systems : the Soweto Food Market in Lusaka, Zambia / Gilbert Siame, Douty Chibamba, Progress H. Nyanga, Brenda Mwalukanga, Beverly Musonda Mushili, Wiza Kabaghe, Garikai Membele, Wilma S. Nchito, Peter Mulambia & Dorothy Ndhlovu -- Formal-informal interface : comparative analysis between three Egyptian cities / Omar Nagati and Beth Stryker -- Dialogues on informality : land sharing as a sustainable approach to tenure security in Kiandutu informal settlement in Thika town, Kenya / Peter Ngau and Philip Olale -- Urban Infrastructure and Inequality : lessons from Cairo and Johannesburg / Deena Khalil and Margot Rubin -- Weathering the storm : reflections on a community-based approach to flood-risk management in Kumasi, Ghana / Divine Ahadzie, Irene-Nora Dinye and Rudith Sylvana King -- Housing for whom? Rebuilding Angola's cities after conflict and who gets left behind / Allan Cain -- Conclusion: Towards a research agenda for knowledge coproduction in urban Africa / Sylvia Croese.

Introduction: Africa's urban challenge / Sylvia Croese -- The formal-informal interface through the lens of urban food systems : the Soweto Food Market in Lusaka, Zambia / Gilbert Siame, Douty Chibamba, Progress H. Nyanga, Brenda Mwalukanga, Beverly Musonda Mushili, Wiza Kabaghe, Garikai Membele, Wilma S. Nchito, Peter Mulambia & Dorothy Ndhlovu -- Formal-informal interface : comparative analysis between three Egyptian cities / Omar Nagati and Beth Stryker -- Dialogues on informality : land sharing as a sustainable approach to tenure security in Kiandutu informal settlement in Thika town, Kenya / Peter Ngau and Philip Olale -- Urban Infrastructure and Inequality : lessons from Cairo and Johannesburg / Deena Khalil and Margot Rubin -- Weathering the storm : reflections on a community-based approach to flood-risk management in Kumasi, Ghana / Divine Ahadzie, Irene-Nora Dinye and Rudith Sylvana King -- Housing for whom? Rebuilding Angola's cities after conflict and who gets left behind / Allan Cain -- Conclusion: Towards a research agenda for knowledge coproduction in urban Africa / Sylvia Croese.

This book explores the changing dynamics and challenges behind the rapid expanse of Africa's urban population. Africa's urban age is underway. With the world's fastest growing urban population, the continent is rapidly transforming from one that is largely rural, to one that is largely urban. Often facing limited budgets, those tasked with managing African cities require empirical evidence on the nature of demands for infrastructure, escalating environmental hazards, and ever-expanding informal settlements. Drawing on the work of the African Urban Research Initiative, this book brings together contributions from local researchers investigating key themes and challenges within their own contexts. An important example of urban knowledge coproduction, the book demonstrates the regional diversity that can be seen as the main feature of African urbanism, with even well-accepted concepts such as informality manifesting in markedly different ways from place to place. Providing an important nuanced perspective on the heterogeneity of African cities and the challenges they face, this book will be an important resource for researchers across development studies, African studies, and urban studies.

"This book explores the changing dynamics and challenges behind the rapid expanse of Africa's urban population. Africa's urban age is underway. With the world's fastest growing urban population, the continent is rapidly transforming from one that is largely rural, to one that is largely urban. Often facing limited budgets, those tasked with managing African cities require empirical evidence on the nature of demands for infrastructure, escalating environmental hazards, and ever-expanding informal settlements. Drawing on the work of the African Urban Research Initiative, this book brings together contributions from local researchers investigating key themes and challenges within their own contexts. An important example of urban knowledge coproduction, the book demonstrates the regional diversity that can be seen as the main feature of African urbanism, with even well-accepted concepts such as informality manifesting in markedly different ways from place to place. Providing an important nuanced perspective on the heterogeneity of African cities and the challenges they face, this book will be an important resource for researchers across development studies, African studies, and urban studies"--

This study describes the saga of how one community, instead of squatting in an informal settlement or invading a new plot of land, attempted to buy land legally and build their own houses in a peri-urban area, using their own savings. The Ethembalethu story draws attention to the many challenges that poor people face accessing land and housing in South Africa. The purpose of this case study is to highlight the complex challenges that face poor communities that attempt to secure their constitutionally mandated rights to adequate housing. These challenges stem from inconsistent or inadequate policies and legislation, confusion between the myriad agencies involved, lack of clarity over responsibilities and accountability, lack of capacity of the implementing agencies, the rising costs and delays in accessing building materials, corruption, and the absence of information and training of both government officials and the housing hopefuls. Finally, the case highlights the Not-In-My-Back-Yard (NIMBY) ferocity with which wealthier citizens may still resist change in the new South Africa. This report draws practical lessons from the case study and makes suggestions for reforms. This report is organized as follows. It begins with a narrative of events, starting in 1996 and ending in 2006. It draws the key lessons emerging from this experience. It then investigates the main issues, and suggests reforms and improvements in the following areas: (i) improving access to land; (ii) simplifying and aligning legal procedures; (iii) designing a land and housing program for peri-urban areas; and (iv) reforming the land market. The report concludes with a call for further participatory action research