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Demographers believe that African cities will be some of the largest in the world by 2100, and soon after Lagos, Nigeria could cross the 100 million people barrier. Why Lagos? And what will it be like?
Resources on this topic:
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/0956247816684711
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/095624781666355
https://www.npr.org/2023/04/05/1168116175/lagos-the-biggest-city-in-nigeria-is-experiencing-a-population-boom
https://insights.som.yale.edu/insights/what-should-we-understand-about-urbanization-in-china
https://www.oecd.org/china/42607972.pdf
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_total_fertility_rate
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/273682019_Living_conditions_and_public_health_status_in_three_urban_slums_of_Lagos_Nigeria
https://businessday.ng/maritime/article/four-new-deep-seaports-set-to-attract-investments/#:~:text=The four deep seaports are,Deep Seaport in Rivers State.
https://www.economist.com/special-report/2020/03/26/africa-is-changing-so-rapidly-it-is-becoming-hard-to-ignore
https://www.pnas.org/doi/pdf/10.1073/pnas.2214254120, https://www.archdaily.com/966346/african-urbanism-preserving-cultural-heritage-in-the-age-of-megacities
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