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The future of cities from a global South perspective

CS Magazine issue: #11

A roof over our heads

Sheela Patel foregrounds the realities of slum dwellers in thinking about climate change resilience and financing for urban development … Read more

by Sheela Patel

Finding your own vocabulary

For over 40 years, the relentlessly sunny city of Dubai has expanded and densified at a dizzying rate. Almost constant construction is evidenced in th … Read more

by Wael Al Awar

Nigerian cuisine is ready for prime time

On a summer’s late-afternoon at Skylight, a rooftop bar in East London’s Tobacco Dock, the young, fashionably underdressed, mostly white clientele who … Read more

by Tau Tavengwa

Power and permanence

At a glance, the pretext for Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s controversial decision to replace the country’s old Parliament building seems strai … Read more

Nairobi: the curious case of the city in the sun

Twenty years ago when I first came to work in Kenya’s capital, I could drive myself around Nairobi easily. I had the hang of the streets, though many … Read more

by Charles Onyango-Obbo

Lagos: When the metro comes to town

Everyone on the platform held their smartphones and digital cameras aloft on the mild September morning when I took my inaugural ride on the first-eve … Read more

by Jesusegun Alagbe

You can’t go home again

The horror creeps in at 40,000 feet, somewhere above Matadi. On the overnight flight from Cape Town to London, this is the point where you wake up and … Read more

The Dangote Dilemma

In May 2023, the Dangote Oil Refinery, with a capacity of 650,000 barrels per day, was commissioned in Ibeju-Lekki, on the outskirts of Lagos. The wor … Read more

by Mathias Agbo Junior

Fleeing Khartoum

Riyadh was very busy, with a lot of life and movement,” Khartoum resident Haneen El recalled. “The streets were filled with restaurants, fast food tru … Read more

by Mukanzi Musanga

Vukosi Marivate: Finding Africa inside the machine

While the rest of us speculate about ChatGPT and Midjourney, the University of Pretoria’s Vukosi Marivate is facilitating the development of an altern … Read more

by Tau Tavengwa