It’s projected that nearly 1 billion more people will live in Africa’s cities by 2050. Earlier, China was in the top spot: between 1978 and 2010, over 700 million people moved to China’s cities.

Of the 20 cities in Africa with the fastest-growing populations from 2000 to 2020, only one is a capital city (Abuja in Nigeria) and just five have populations of more than 1m people, according to ...

The few studies using street view images in Africa, focus on larger cities in South Africa. ... (e.g. Tencent Maps or Baidu), or governments deliberately restricting coverage, ...