Africa’s Future | 2 Billion Strong
African urbanisation presents the biggest and most exciting opportunity for Africa to shed its impoverished image to being a place of prosperity and growth.
This growth calls for more than just the provision of a house, but a deliberate, conscious program of action to build communities, ensuring dignity and belonging remain the key elements that form our African identify. The communiTgrow pillars offer the holistic, integrated and regenerative approach required to achieve this.
2 BILLION STRONG – A Regenerative Solution to Building Sustainable African Cities is a collaborative contribution of insights, expertise and experience made by the individuals comprising communiTgrow’s team and partnerships.
The title of the book makes reference to the projected population of Africa by 2050; being 2 billion people.
2 BILLION STRONG offers valuable insight into communiTgrow’s mission to build new regenerative cities throughout Africa. communiTgrow is sharing their intellectual property in this format, to inspire others and to illustrate how a sustainable Africa is within reach. An Africa where every citizen has the access to the means and knowledge required to live a healthy, balanced life and a continent that will be 2 BILLION STRONG.
2 BILLION STRONG
The book is available as a free e-book to download using the link below.
Africa’s Agenda to be a Developed Continent
Africa has been long acknowledged as the future bread-basket of the world with a rapidly growing middle class of some of the world’s fastest-growing economies based on GDP.
Despite deep cultural and national divides, Africa is well poised for modernization and development. Thankfully, much guidance is offered by way of the AU’s Agenda 2063, The African Development Bank’s High 5’s and the United Nations’ 17 Sustainable Development Goals (UN SDGs), on how Africa can become a ‘developed’ continent resulting in substantial positive impact on the lives of all Africans and the global economy that counter the effects of climate change through the use of renewable energy and other regenerative whole-system holistic measures.
Africa’s growth factors include
- Exponential mass urbanisation
- Demographic dividend of a young population
- World’s largest forecast workforce by 2035
- Abundance of untapped natural resources required for many technology innovations
- Current low infrastructure development base
- Estimated 60% of the world’s uncultivated arable land
The development of Africa is supported by robust initiatives and institutions like the UN, AU, IMF, NEPAD, PIDA, CFTA and others, all committed to assisting African countries developing into major global economies. Africa’s ambitions have never been more evident than with the ratification of the AfCFTA (African Continental Free Trade Agreement) and the African Union Protocol on Free Movement of People that immediately creates substantial opportunities for economic growth.
