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The Future of Africa's Cities
The ideal african city in the next couple of decades will hinge so much on a certain degree of employment and, you know, income generation for its citizens. The challenge we in most emerging market cities is you don't have a tax pase or municipal bonds being issued to fund services. So we depend on informal sector. We depend on social enterprises to provide a lot of this kind of last mile support. A big test of it right now will be the second attempt at a b r a bus rapid transit system in nirobees that are running under the first bus tussle. And i think what makes these evolution from thi or semi-formal operators into formal