Addis Ababa, Ethiopia’s capital. Plans are underway to give the city a facelift. Getty Images Urban investments across the African continent are at an all-time high. Yet the nature of these ...
Over the last two decades, Addis Ababa has witnessed rapid socio-economic changes and a drastic physical transformation. This was propelled by a development-oriented government and the private sector.
Biruk Terrefe is a Ph.D. candidate at the Oxford Department of International Development. His research focuses on the politics of infrastructure and urbanization in Ethiopia and the wider Horn of ...