Governments in Africa are licensing major global ride-hailing firms to launch operations in the continent. This is often presented as a refreshing development for the continent to leverage technology to address its twin problems of inefficient urban transport and rising youth unemployment....

Paper suggests a radical relook at how building safety problems in cities in Africa are approached. Laxity in the implementation of codes and bylaws are not the only concerns! The interconnections between the institutional-historical and global-local political economy factors that result in the...