PACE examined the question: How does urban growth in Africa affect political and societal change?
We examine this question by undertaking continent-wide data collection on the political dynamics of African cities, and survey data collection and qualitative fieldwork in Accra, Kampala, Lagos, and Lusaka.
In doing so, the project aims to:
- Understand how urban growth shapes political change in African cities.
- Identify how political change in African cities affects broader socio-political change.
- Advance the empirical measurement of Africa's urban polities to catalyse new scholarship and support evidence-based policy.
- Synthesise and communicate findings in support of the Sustainable Development Goal agenda, particularly Goal 11 to make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable.
