Africa's Urbanisation Dynamics 2022 | Kunal Sen's reflections 

Why is there such a lack of structural transformation in African cities, when the urbanisation rate is so high? How much does productivity vary across countries and cities - and what impact does this have on urban development? And how does politics permeate rates of transformation?
Responding to Philipp Heinrigs's presentation on Africa’s Urbanisation Dynamics 2022, UNU-WIDER's director Kunal Sen uses a political settlements lens to look closer at the relationship between urbanisation and structural transformation in ACRC's focus cities.