But unlike that American super-region, whose population long ago plateaued, this part of west Africa will keep growing. And it is that strip along the coast of west Africa where the biggest changes are coming,” said Daniel Hoornweg, a scholar of urbanisation at Ontario Tech University. For long stretches, the west African countryside was so empty that we had to carry our own fuel in jerry cans. Downtown Lagos, Nigeria. But it was on more recent trips, in the 2010s, that I saw the urban revolution transforming west Africa coming into full view.

Source: The Guardian October 28, 2022 07:52 UTC