Aug 8, 2025 · Here, focusing on sub-Saharan Africa, we integrate geospatial data with household surveys to map slum prevalence and asset-based wealth inequalities across 32 countries.

Dec 1, 2023 · UN-Habitat estimates that 51.3% of the urban population in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) resided in slums in 2020, and future projections indicate continued growth. However, …

Africa’s most populous and vulnerable slums such as Kibera and Mathare in Nairobi; Khayelitsha in Cape Town; Makoko in Lagos, and Agbogbloshie in Accra, exemplify the social, …

Aug 4, 2024 · In Sub-Saharan Africa, slum settlements house over 53 per cent of the urban population. This surge in urban inequality has been mirrored by a dramatic rise in informal …

Aug 8, 2025 · A groundbreaking new study by Li et al., published in Nature Cities in 2025, powerfully addresses this knowledge gap by mapping the prevalence of urban slums and …

Oct 2, 2020 · While around one billion people live in slums around the globe, 200 million of those live in sub-Saharan African slums. This number represents “61.7% of the region’s urban …

Africa’s growing slums are complex, diverse neighborhoods with their own histories. Currently, these places, characterized by spatially concentrated poverty and human rights abuses, are …

Mar 6, 2025 · Across the continent’s cities, informal settlements – often called slums – have become a dominant form of housing for low-income residents.

In South Africa, the origins of informal settlements can be traced back to the years of segregation. In those days, the population was segmented according to official racial groups which all had …

In sub-Sahara Africa, the numbers of slums dwellers are significant and increasing: over half of the African urban population (61.7%) lives in slums and by 2050, Africa’s urban dwellers are …