8 Conurbations

8.1 Africa

Tooze

At independence in 1957, at the beginning of its trajectory of repeated renegotiations with the IMF, Ghana’s population was roughly 6 million. Today Ghanas’s population is 33 million, more than five times larger. Ghana’s capital Accra is now one of the hubs in a giant conurbation that stretches from Abidjan in Ivory Coast to Lagos in Nigeria.

Tooze (2022) Chartbook #181: Finance and the polycrisis (6): Africa’s debt crisis