Lagos State has been ranked as Africa’s second-largest city after Cairo, Egypt. This achievement comes as the state’s Gross Domestic Product, GDP, rose to $259 billion based on Purchasing Power Parity ...

South Africa, in partnership with the World Bank, has launched a $3 billion initiative to restore essential services and ...

One such mega-city can be found in Africa. The place in question is Lagos in Nigeria, which is on track to become the largest city in the world by the end of the century, with a projected ...

Ibadan is not only the largest city in Nigeria by land area but also the largest in all of West Africa, covering a vast 3,080 square kilometers—nearly twice the size of London. As the capital of ...

Even as Africa’s cities are crowded with inhabitants — but not dense with capital — they are physically fragmented and dispersed. They develop as collections of small, scattered neighborhoods. Without ...

The city is home to Kariakoo, Tanzania’s biggest and busiest shopping district that draws tens of thousands of shoppers from ...

One of the largest cities in the country of South Africa is Johannesburg. Find about more about what it is like to live there and compare with life in Birmingham in this BBC Teach video.

South Africa’s second-largest city, Johannesburg, is running out of water. The loss of water due to mismanagement, theft and waste has taken its toll, and now shortages are a part of life. Reporter ...