After an outbreak of acute watery diarrhoea in August 2009, authorities in Addis Ababa have surveyed the city's sanitation and found that nearly one in four residents have no access to latrines. One proposal is the ArborLoo, a concrete composting toilet structure that can be moved to a new location once the original pit is full, which can then support fruit trees and other food plants.
On the occasion of the World Urban Forum in Rio de Janeiro, Kerwin Datu speaks with Professor Edgar Pieterse, director of the African Centre for Cities at the University of Cape Town, on retheorising the African city, the politics of Africa's mega-regions…
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Vadim Rossman is a professor at the Higher School of Economics, St Petersburg.
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