Stunting rates range between 10% in prosperous areas of southern Nigeria to over 50% in parts of the north.
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Maboneng represents one strand of the type of urban development that's advocated for by the proponents of 'global cities'. (Photo/ Flickr/ SA Tourism)
Taking Over, One Craft Beer And Wood-Fired Pizza At A Time: Gentrifying Inner-City Johannesburg Pushes Out Poor Residents
A city is considered ‘global’ if it has skyscrapers, cafes and malls that adhere to western notions of modernity and development. That doesn’t have to be the case
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Inequality In Africa: Southern Africa’s ‘Enclave Economies’ Most Unequal
In Namibia and South Africa, the richest 10% are responsible for more than half (50%+) of total consumption in the economy – a huge gap by any standards. It’s a legacy of how capitalism was introduced into the region
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Classroom in Somalia, at the Hawa Abdi Centre for Internally Displaced Somalis. (UN Photo/Tobin Jones)
‘Penalised’ In Primary, Privileged In University: East Africa Education Spending
The inequity in resource allocation is clearer when you consider that it is just a tiny minority of people who make it to higher levels of education in the first place.
Income Inequality In Africa, 2007; Gulf Widest In Namibia And Lesotho
In this dataset of 31 African countries, Namibia, Lesotho and Sierra Leone are the most unequal, while Ethiopia, Egypt and Tanzania are the most equal.