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Published: Sept. 21, 2019, 2:32 a.m.

Africa is the fastest urbanizing continent in the world. The ten biggest cities around the world will be entirely located in Asia and Africa, with more than one billion Africans being city dwellers around this time. At least six African cities will have more than ten million people (Cairo, Lagos, Kinshasa, Luanda, Dar es Salaam and Johannesburg ). 

In a handful of years the number of African people living in cities will rise from 500 million to 1 billion. Double its population from now to 2050, growing from the current 1.2 billion people to around 2.5 (approximately a quarter of the world’s population ). The United Nations advise that by 2100, 5 of the 7 largest cities in the world will be African. Lagos will be the biggest with 88 million inhabitants.

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