There is no overpopulation.
Don't be mistaken. That is an incredibly long stretch just north of Earth's largest circumference.
That is Europe's economic drive train about to crack by its system being incapable to adjust as discussed in other articles of that blog.
While Europe faces national boarders with segregated administrations which created maintenance heavy infrastructure reaching its very limits as we speak, Africa is facing Terror Groups at its least populated regions.
Soon, their problems will be much less in impact than ours.
We can look at Central Africa as three parts. None is a Sprawl on its own. Lagos, Nigeria is, but it would be a long term mistake to not see those three parts as one Continental Sprawl.
Africans have to think in longer distances then we Europeans, but over flatter landscapes and through less densely populated regions. That is overall a huge advantage.
The natural reflex is to focus all resources into fixing Lagos' traffic problem. Lagos needs more housing, high risers, road tunnels, public transport and highways within town.
But Africa needs to think in much larger distances than London or Paris.
London Paris is just 350km.
This is in Africa Lagos to in between Benin City and Onitsha/Nnewi.
China went a different way on the same distances.
They managed to create a high density strip being close together in their main center rather than a density core as both Africa and Europe have today.
Europe struggles to connect despite its vast road network the three main centers in its economic core. It has no legal base or development strategy to rise the sub-centers in order to lift weight from its main centers. The amount of train rides between London, Paris and Amsterdam is much less than around Hong-Kong and connections to sub-centers next to Lille or Bruxelles are badly developed compared to China.
The Netherlands have the very best public transport connection system and are also the highest populated area with a Chinese comparable density structure. Europe just never managed to adopt that into the larger region of London, Paris, Amsterdam.
The Hague, Amsterdam and Rotterdam with the smaller towns in between are the Blue Print of Hong-Kong - Guangzhou and vice versa without knowing.
It is hardly any difference if a business human lives in any of these places that make Noord-Holland and with which other part the person interacts with, while the traffic corridor between London and Amsterdam reached its capability limits facing renewal needs on top.
Business between Amsterdam and Rotterdam is much easier than between London and Amsterdam even despite the impact and thereby importance onto Europe as a whole.
Lagos is driving West Africa's prosperity and West Africa the prosperity of Sub-Saharan development.
The Great Green Wall of Africa needs some more attention, the rural areas between the erasing African Centers even more, while the core Centers might be over valued, which is the mistake we Europeans did being locked down into our Nations.
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