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Kumasi and six other African cities are expected to grow at a much faster pace, supported by infrastructure development, urbanisation and the emergence of megacities.

According to the Economist Intelligence Unit, the continent’s established urban heavyweights and megacities including Cairo, Lagos and Johannesburg will still sit at the head of the Africa100 city economies in 2035.

The other six African cities that would grow quickly are Kinshasa, Dar es Salaam, Addis Ababa, Abidjan, Kampala and Dakar.

In a report, the London based firm said it expect rapid urbanisation across Africa to help to create more dynamic and wealthier consumer markets, better connected and more sophisticated commercial and distribution hubs, and larger bases for industrial production and import-export operations.

However, overcrowding, informal settlements, high unemployment, poor public services, stretched utility services and exposure to climate change are just some of the major challenges that city planners will have to grapple with in their drive for sustainable urban economic growth in the next decade

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