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Hello Africa,   Elitism and City Development in Africa. Development initiatives in African countries are predominantly metropolitan, and  mainly urban-focused. Crippling social challenges which include inadequate basic infrastructure, slums, squalor, and low standard of living are the resultant effect of urban development. In Africa, it is estimated that over 60 percent of urban and city inhabitants live in slums and abject poverty. The development of new cities and urban centers is mainly to eliminate these social ills, rather than reduce  poverty and inequality.   Figure 1. Atlantic City Project, Lagos Nigeria. Africa is building new cities across the continent, and most African leaders largely focus on new country capital, mainly for administrative purposes. The future of Africa is to build new smart cities that will drive economic growth and development. The Eko Atlantic City, in Lagos Nigeria, Konza Techno City in Kenya, Kigali Metro-City, and the Modderfontein ...

  The S-curve and Personal Growth and Development   Figure 1: S-curve   The S-curve framework  has been used in multi-discipline analysis and framework to depict Begin, Growth, and Decline Phase of human biology, production theory in economics, project evaluation, performance evaluation, cash flow forecast, and a wide range of  measurement factors that utilizes a cumulative distributive chart with growth and time. It is used for measuring the start, growth, maturity, and decline of a given entity or project. The S-shaped curve helps us to understand the nature and performance of a given project or role, and outcomes can help in forecast and learning for corporate and personal growth and development. The S-curve is likened to the the three stages of production in economic theory were the average and marginal contribution of factor inputs determine the output in the production function. At stage one, average product is rising, stage two average product is rising b...