The urban challenge in Africa: Growth and management of 
its large cities
Edited by Carole Rakodi - 
United Nations University Press - TOKYO 
- NEW YORK - PARIS - © The United Nations University, 1997
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Contributors
Josephine Olu Abiodun
Professor, Department 
of Geography, Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Nigeria
Tade Akin Aina
Deputy Executive Secretary 
(Publications), Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa 
(CODESRIA), Dakar, Senegal
Tarek A. Aboul Atta
Associate Professor of 
Urban and Regional Planning, Cairo University, Egypt
Keith S. O. Beavon
Professor, Department of 
Geography and Environmental Studies, University of the Witwatersrand, 
Johannesburg, South Africa
Alain Dubresson
Professor, Department of 
Geography, Centre d'Etudes Géographiques sur l'Afrique Noire, University of 
Paris X, France
Salah El-Shakhs
Professor, Department of 
Urban Planning and Policy, Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public 
Policy, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, N.J., USA
R. A. Obudho
Associate Professor, Department 
of Geography, University of Nairobi, Kenya
Jean-Luc Piermay
Professor, UFR de 
Géographie, Université Louis Pasteur, Centre National de la Recherche 
Scientifique, Strasbourg, France
Deborah Potts
Department of Geography, School 
of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, UK
Carole Rakodi
Professor of International 
Urban Development Planning, Department of City and Regional Planning, University 
of Wales, Cardiff, UK
Christian M. Rogerson
Professor, Department 
of Geography, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South 
Africa
David Simon
Reader in Development Geography, 
and Director, Centre for Developing Areas Research (CEDAR), Department of 
Geography, Royal Holloway, University of London, Egham, Surrey, UK
Kadmiel H. Wekwete
United Nations Centre for 
Human Settlements (HABITAT), Nairobi, Kenya
Mahmoud Yousry
Professor of Urban and 
Regional Planning, Cairo University, Egypt
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