It’s a pain in the ass. Since the young population is expected to double by 2000, all the countries of sub-Saharan Africa are involved in a problem: how to encourage the development of their states, which are experiencing the fastest growth in the world? Lagos and Kinshasa, for example, are expected to be home to more than 20 million inhabitants by 2030!
The question of transportation is particularly complicated. 80% of African city dwellers do not own a vehicle. They therefore depend on abundance. What is the best strategy to take not only to improve the flow of traffic, but also to limit the contagion? Antananarivo, the Malagasy capital, inaugurated its urban cable car this week. An efficient mode of transport to open up isolated neighborhoods but which also involves many needs…
Report from Reunion Island Samuel Turpin shot in a car in Papang on the island of Reunion two years ago.
when John James Helluin of* COTADU (International non-governmental organization, created in 1980 in Dakar by the World Conference on Urban Transport. Its mission is to promote sustainable urban mobility in the cities of the South). Talent and urban planning with more than 20 years of experience in the cities of the South Jean-Jacques Helluin is the general management of the association.