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Accra: Sensing the City Through Sound

Published on August 29, 2015 in Urban (In)formality/Urbanism from Ghana by African Urbanism

In May, African Urbanism contributed to MIT’s Community Innovation Lab (CoLab Radio) “Listening to the City” series. The series includes sounds from cities such as a market in Mexico City, a struggling street market in Thessaloniki, Greece, and sounds of Los Angeles’ street economy. What do other cities sound like? Read descriptions of other cities included in the…

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A World Bank chief economist’s take on informality and employment in Africa

Published on May 9, 2013 in Learning/Urban (In)formality by African Urbanism

“Most Africans, the ones in rural areas as well as people in the urban areas, are in the informal sector. And there is a reason for that: they cannot afford to be unemployed. Most of the unemployed in Africa are people with secondary school degrees, who have finished secondary school or even university. They are…

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