Urban Africa
"African cities became more awful - more desperate and dangerous - as they grew larger. They did not become denser, they simply sprawled more, became gigantic villages... 'Citrified' in Africa just meant bigger and dirtier." - Paul Theroux, Dark Star Safari.
"Even at best African cities seemed to me miseralbe improvised ant-hills, attracting the poor and the desperate from the bush, and turning them into thiees and devisers of cruel scams. Scamming is the survival mode in a city where tribal niceties do not apply and there are no sanctions except those of the police, a class of people who in Africa generally are little more than licensed thieves." - Paul Theroux, Dark Star Safari.
Resources:
PBS - An Urban Africa Photostory
Urban conflict and social movements in poor countries
The multiple facets of poverty: the case of urban africa
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