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How Africans Are Building The Cities Of The Future

Published: July 17, 2021, 7:08 p.m.

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Africans are moving into cities in unprecedented numbers. Lagos, Nigeria, is growing by 77 people an hour \\u2014 it\'s on track to become a city of 100 million. In 30 years, the continent is projected to have 14 mega-cities of more than 10 million people. It\'s perhaps the largest urban migration in history.

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These cities are not like Dubai, or Singapore, or Los Angeles. They\\u2019re uniquely African cities, and they\\u2019re forcing all of us to reconsider what makes a city modern. And how and why cities thrive.

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To find out what\'s going on, we go to Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, to talk with entrepreneurs, writers, scholars and artists. In this hour, produced in partnership with the Consortium of Humanities Centers and Institutes (CHCI) \\u2014 a global consortium of 270 humanities centers and institutes \\u2014 we learn how the continent where the human species was born is building the cities of the future.

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Original Air Date: December 14, 2019

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Guests:

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Dagmawi Woubshet \\u2014 Julie Mehretu \\u2014 Emily Callaci \\u2014 James Ogude \\u2014 Ato Qyayson \\u2014 Teju Cole \\u2014 Meskerem Assegued

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Interviews In This Hour:

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Rediscovering the Indigenous City of Addis Ababa \\u2014 \'People As Infrastructure\' \\u2014 A Tour Of The Networked City \\u2014 \'I Am Because We Are\': The African Philosophy of Ubuntu \\u2014 How Pan-African Dreams Turned Dystopic \\u2014 Decoding Global Capitalism on One African Street \\u2014 Life in the Diaspora: How Teju Cole Pivots Between Cultures \\u2014 Can Artists Create the City of the Future?

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Further Reading:

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