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Africa is urbanising at breakneck speed. Every year, millions stream into cities chasing opportunity, education, and the elusive promise of modern life. But for many, the city does not greet them with glass towers and clean pavements. It greets them with corrugated iron, informal wiring, and water fetched by the jerrycan. In 2022, over 284.8 million people in Sub-Saharan Africa lived in urban slum households—about 27% of the world’s total slum population.

Every twelve steps you take in a crowd of humanity, you pass one person who is living in extreme poverty—trying to survive on less than $2.15 a day. Not because they lack ambition. Not because they lack intelligence. But because the odds are systemically stacked against them.