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Nigerian Cities: Their Rehabilitation and Redevelopment

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 May 2014

G. Adepoju Onibokun
G. Adepoju Onibokun*
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University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario
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The hearts of many cities in Nigeria are like islands of poverty in seas of relative affluence. It does not require professional skill in environmental perception to note the difference between the residential, environmental, and the overall physical structure of the central parts of Lagos and Ibadan, for example, and their suburbs. Well-designed and relatively well-maintained neighbourhoods in the suburbs and in the newer sections of these cities are inhabited by the affluent, the middle-class, and the privileged. At the other polar end are the majority of urbanites— citizens massing themselves in the unkempt and often squalid hearts of the cities, living under conditions that are at times sub-human and sharing sub-standard houses in areas which, by any standard, are slums. Unfortunately, concern over the slums, on the part of the privileged, the public authorities, and the citizens themselves, is insignificant. There has been much talking, much academic analysis, and much propaganda, but little or no action. Hence there has been little accomplishment and hardly any change in the plight of the low-income people who are directly bearing the brunt of the urban problems.

Many academicians, both nationals and expatriates, have drawn attention to the multi-dimensionality of the urban problems facing Nigeria (see Bascom 1955; Lloyd 1960; Mitchel 1962; Miner 1960; Herskivits 1930, 1962; Mabogunje 1961, 1962ab; United Nations Economic Commission for Africa 1962). Most of their studies, however, have been confined to general description of the ugly urban phenomena, to historical emergence of slums, and to geographical and sociological analyses of the urban problems.

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African Studies Review , Volume 13 , Issue 2 , September 1970 , pp. 291 - 310
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Copyright © African Studies Association 1970

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