To keep our cities from crumbling, let’s create smart slums
A floating school in Lago's Makoko slum. It has a play area on the ground floor and a class each on the first and second floor. Makoko is a smart slum designed with ingenuity to capture the possibilities of the environment while creating a connected community supporting an ecosystem. PHOTO | NMG
At least two people were killed in recent flooding in Dar es Salaam, eight in Durban, and 15 in Rubanda, a town in western Uganda.
Floods in African cities are becoming a recurrent phenomenon. While climate change is a contributor, poor city planning and design, old infrastructure and archaic expansion are also to blame. Thus with non-functioning drainage systems, floods will continue to be a permanent feature of seasonal rains, especially in slums.
