South Africa stands at a critical crossroads in its approach to waste management. We generate an estimated 122 million tonnes of waste every year, but only about 10–16% is recycled1, so it goes ...

An international team from the University of Hong Kong (HKU), Wuhan University and other institutions published a research paper titled "Underlying rules of evolutionary urban systems in Africa" in ...

Patrick Brandful Cobbinah has previously received funding from Lincoln Institute for Land Policy, USA. African cities are rapidly urbanising and already experiencing considerable negative impacts of ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I travel the world reporting on emerging markets and China overseas. Africa has become the next frontier for infrastructure ...

A new collection of essays, including a short one by Mamdani himself, seeks to address the wide-ranging issues which his work raised but did exhaust. On the Subject of Citizenship: Late Colonialism in ...