An Africa without slums?
Large overpopulated areas without drinking water. Entire quarters without basic sanitation installations nor public facilities. Large sectors of metropolitan centers without electrification, times just some hundred meters from zones comparable to Neuilly-sur-Seine in France, Halifax in Canada or Beverly Hills in the United States of America. African big metropolis most often offer the sad images of rats sharing human shelter some hundred meters from castles. Slums in Africa could be rightfully considered as the main criteria of underdevelopment because they do highlight the true image of modernity: greedy economic growth mocking human misfortune.
For a reader who wishes to learn more about African slums, we strongly recommend the following the following book: Remy Sietchiping, Predicting and Preventing Slum Growth, VDM Verlag, 2008, 240p.
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