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When communities face security challenges and lack legal protection, they find innovative ways to respond.
Many urban residents live in dire poverty, lack shelter, and have limited access to basic services.
Research suggests that communities need jobs, food and health care, not political acts that hijack the spirit of bayanihan.
If we learn from COVID-19, there are three key areas to tackle to make cities safer from outbreaks of future infectious diseases.
Kenya’s urban poor lack enough food and the little they can afford is often unsafe and of poor nutritional value.
Abiy Ahmed has a vision to upgrade Ethiopia’s capital city but his ambitious megaprojects do not take the majority of Addis Ababa’s residents into account
The Nigerian government must adopt a process that is open in implementing its social assistance programmes.
The Lagos state government must go beyond food packages as stimulus, and build capacity for poor people.
COVID-19 is spreading fast through not only the world’s richest cities but also its poorest, ravaging slum areas where risk factors like overcrowding and poverty accelerate disease transmission.
The plight of the urban poor affected by COVID-19 highlights the need to to reaffirm that adequate housing, water supply and sanitation are basic human rights.
Cities can learn from past pandemics to see how communities and lifestyles are shaped by outbreaks.
Gentrification often leads to the eviction of poor and largely racialized populations. When a university campus drives the change, they can choose to do something about it.
By better understanding the politics and governance of African cities and variations across cities, we can identify feasible opportunities to improve informal traders’ livelihoods.
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Assistant Professor, University of Memphis
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Lecturer, University of Environment and Sustainable Development
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Visiting Assistant Professor, University of Arizona
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Associate Professor, Urban & Regional Planning, Sydney School of Architecture, Design and Planning, University of Sydney
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Senior Research Scientist, African Population and Health Research Center
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Senior Research Fellow, International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)
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Research fellow, University of Southern Queensland
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Associate professor of Communications, Concordia University
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Lecturer, Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro (PUC-Rio)
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African Population and Health Research Center
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Postdoctoral researcher, Institute of Development Policy, University of Antwerp
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Communications Officer, African Population and Health Research Center
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Assistant Professor in the Department of Equity Studies, York University, Canada
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Associate Professor, Department of Communication, Université de Montréal
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Research Fellow, The Australasian Centre for Resilience Implementation for Sustainable Communities, Charles Darwin University
