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Urbanism and Urbanization

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 August 2021

Yohannis Abate
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Africa is now the least urbanized of the continents but is becoming more so at one of the fastest rates in the world. The history of urbanization in Africa predates the birth of Christ; it may have developed as early as 3500 B.C. in the flood plain of the lower Nile for control and administration of the Nile Valley by the Pharaohs, though most of the ancient and pre-colonial African urban centers are now insignificant towns and some have become extinct. Between 1500 B.C. and 500 A.D., the Mediterranean coast of North Africa saw the creation of many cities, which flourished because of trade between the Phoenicians and Carthaginians.

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African Issues , Volume 8 , Issue 4 , Winter 1978 , pp. 23 - 29
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Copyright © African Studies Association 1978 

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