ABSTRACT
Africa south of the Sahara is undergoing a species of social as well as industrial revolution and one of the most striking characteristics of this phenomenon is urbanization. By urbanization is meant the process whereby people acquire material and non-material elements of culture, behaviour patterns and ideas that originate in or are distinctive of the city. African urbanization is the more remarkable because at the present time less than 10 per cent of the continent’s population live in cities of 100,000 or more inhabitants (Davis, 1968, p. 38).
