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Koffi Attahi is an Ivorian planner trained in Canada, where he obtained his doctorate in urban planning from the University of Montréal. He was previously in the Department of Geography at the University of Abidjan and was the director of its Centre de recherches architecturales et urbaines. He is currently the regional adviser at the regional office for Africa of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP, with the UNDP–World Bank Urban Management Programme in Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire). He has carried out extensive research on urbanization and urban management in francophone sub-Saharan Africa and has worked as a consultant for the United Nations Centre for Human Settlements (Habitat), the World Bank, and the overseas development agencies of Canada, Germany, and the United States. He has contributed to two of Habitat’s monographs on urban management — Metropolitan Planning and Management in the Developing World, Abidjan and Quito (1992) and The Management of Secondary Cities in Sub-Saharan Africa (1991) — and to African Cities in Crisis (1986), edited by Richard Stren and Rodney White.

David Hutt is the acting director of the Solid Waste Department, Greater Johannesburg Transitional Metropolitan Council, Johannesburg, South Africa.

J.M. Lusugga Kironde holds an MSc and PhD in Economics, with specialization in land economics. He is at present a lecturer in land economics at the Ardhi Institute, Dar-es-Salaam, Tanzania. Dr Kironde has been an adviser to the Government of Tanzania on urban development and land use.

J.A. Kumuyi, a regional-development expert, is a program director at the Centre for African Settlement Studies and Development (CASSAD), a nongovernmental organization (NGO). Professor Kumuyi obtained his BA and PhD in geography from the University of Ibadan. After many years of consultancy service in the private sector, he joined the Nigerian Institute of Social and Economic Research (NISER) as a senior research fellow, where he rose to become a research professor in 1989. He was the head of the Business and Industrial Consultancy Department of NISER for many years and a consultant to federal and state governments in Nigeria on economic-development and urban-management issues.

Adepoju G. Onibokun holds an MA and PhD in urban and regional planning from the University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Canada. His extensive professional contributions in the urban field include participation on many Nigeria federal- and state-government advisory committees on urban matters. He is the first Nigerian professor of urban and regional planning and has taught at a number of universities in Nigeria and elsewhere, including for many years teaching as professor of urban planning at the University of Illinois at Urbana and at the University of Ibadan, Nigeria. He has also served as consultant to the World Health Organization, the World Bank, and the United Nations on matters related to urban and regional planning, infrastructure development, and institution building. Professor Onibokun founded and is chief executive officer of CASSAD. He has written more than 200 books and articles.

Mark Swilling is the director of the School of Public and Development Management, Faculty of Management, University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa. He was a development-project worker in Planact, and earlier he was a lecturer in the Department of Political Studies, University of the

Witwatersrand, and a research officer in its Centre for Policy Studies. His achievements include participation in the design and establishment of Planact, the School of Public and Development Management, the Community Bank, the Metropolitan Chamber, and numerous development NGOs involved in the delivery of mass housing. He has published several books and more than 50 articles on the nature of the South African state, community movements, the politics of the independent trade-union movement, the South African local-government system and policy alternatives, the management of urban transition, transport policy, South Africa’s international relations, and the dynamics of nonrevolutional transitions to democracy. He recently completed a PhD in the Department of Sociology at the University of Warwick, United Kingdom. His thesis was entitled “Urban Control and Changing Forms of Political Conflict in the Western Cape with Special Reference to Uitenhage, 1979–1986.” His work is now focused on the management of change in state administrations and the structuring of new forms of democratic governance in the public and community sectors.

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