ADELEKE ADEKUNLE
Hi, I'm Adeleke Adekunle, member of Nigeria Slum/Informal settlements federation (Profiling Team). I'm happy to learn from this course, and how to develop slums and inclusive urban development
Location West Africa, Nigeria
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Correct
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Team working is essential
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Nice
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Python, java script , but I can't really work with them.
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I'm a community profiler and coding is necessary for my work , I also love learning whatever that can make my work easier and perfect like coding.
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General and simple tea making is what I said.
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A- put water in a kettle and boil it.
B- get a mug and put boiled water into it.
C- add tea, sugar and milk
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Still learning
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Ready for whatever and become a better one.
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ADELEKE ADEKUNLE made a comment
Very interesting to learn coding and related application for research purpose and community upgrading works.
Adeleke Adekunle from Nigeria Slum/ informal settlement Federation, Nigeria. -
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Very good.
Adeleke Adekunle from Nigeria Slum/informal settlement Federation, Nigeria and a community profiler. Thank -
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I'm new and I'm glad for learning this.
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Nice class
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Wonderful
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Very interesting and educative.
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American with modern slavery is a purely inhumane and racist is evil and treat to human existence
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Racist has several meanings but the main fact is that it's against nature and humanity.
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Most wickedness comes from the Whites or developed or western world and I think there's need for the developed nations to help the developing ones.
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Its my pleasure to learn more from here and to compare what I have read in the past with it and see what progress is happening around the world and how far American have gone from their beginning. Thanks.
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I am Adeleke Adekunle, Nigerian, and a Community profiler and human right activist. Willing to learn more and exchanged ideas with people from other continent. Thanks
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I would like to give a million THANK YOU to everyone that have worked and make this opportunity available to us. It's a very interesting and knowledge impacting course and I have learnt alot from it.
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This is a very sound and wonderful learning platform. I have learnt some new things and increased my knowledge from here.
Thank to everyone that have done great works in putting all these knowledge together. -
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Yes,good and very good solution to Urban waste management and development.
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Very interesting write up.
Almost the same with Lagos state in Nigeria. -
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I would first say one of the causes of Urban migration is availability and concentration of social services and infrastructures in a particular side ( mainly in urban cities or some part of cities) which leads to creation of jobs and more developments in such sides or parts.
Since this is one of factors that brings Development, I think Africa government... -
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In risk prone areas, sensitisation should be the first approach, let people understand the types of risk associated with their living and ensuring them that collective and inclusive development pkan can reduced the risk. With this peoe would be willing to join in averting those risk with good precautionary measures.
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We understand Slums and Informal settlements to be risk prone areas and settlement that needs attention from both the government and the dwellers due to risk that are involved.
To be honest, some Slum and informal settlements dwellers have established collective efforts approach in developing the communities and they collectively constructed drainages, pack... -
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Yes, Kenya and many African cities are faced with the problem of Social services and infrastructures lacking within their settlements. The main cause of all this is lack of Proper Planning and failure to monitor their population growth. Most African countries do not monitor how their population is growing and expansion of the cities as to how best to plan for...
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Yes, I agreed with you.
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Very good approach.
I think good urban risk documentation and monitoring is essential and African countries should start embracing and doing this. -
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Yes, savings group is of tremendous advantages to the members as she have mentioned and it also envourages participatory planning in communities.
Money ties people together and and encouraged participation. like in Nigeria, there's constitution for savings group and developmental projects are executed by the savings group as well inline with democratic or... -
In a good and inclusive development planning, participatory planning is an essential tool or process and because of past events and happenings in different countries in Africa, people don't have or want to believe people with this initiative, some sees this as a waste of time, some doubt the possibility of achieving this, some tagged this as a process to...
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This course is a good practical work that bring change to development planning and processes in African.
African needs this and the acceptability by the actors is what we all need to work towards.
This is a change process to African mentality. -
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Lagos state in Nigeria have issues relating to devolution of power. Different players apart from the powerful actors are forced to silent over development planning and negative altitude and enactment made by the state for selfishness and intimidation purposes.
The power imbalance and centralisation to the state government is a major problem to development and... -
Every region have their economic activities that generates income but lack of proper planning, negligence and discrimination have made many of these income generation activities and resources to remain idle
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A good development planning is what can help African countries on population growth and when every cities or parts is developed, migration will be reduced due to availability of social services and infrastructures, jobs and equal representation.
I think municipal needs to be created and allowed to have some sense of autonomy. Training and retraining of... -
In Nigeria, we have three tiers of government but our local government are denied autonomy and most state governors don't like them to have autonomy and functions between the three tiers of government is stated clearly in our Constitution.
Corruption is why most state governor do not want local government autonomy and some state governors denied local... -
In Nigeria,Nigeria Slum/informal settlements federation have taken it upon themselves to carry out community profiling,service mapping,Boundary mapping in all slum and informal settlements, as well and is creating of Unity among slums/informal settlements dwellers in Nigeria and helping the Communities under eviction threats on how best to avoid eviction....
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There's strong discrimination and intimidation between the rich and the poor in African.
And this power imbalance is everywhere, some years in Lagos Nigeria, a governor demolished so many communities which he called health risk prone settlements and one of the community is Maroko. So many people were displaced, many lost the properties, many died, many are... -
ADELEKE ADEKUNLE made a comment
There's strong discrimination and intimidation between the rich and the poor in African.
And this power imbalance is everywhere, some years in Lagos Nigeria, a governor demolished so many communities which he called health risk prone settlements and one of the community is Maroko. So many people were displaced, many lost the properties, many died, many are... -
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In African countries, most informal settlements pay taxes,bills and other relevant charges but these communities or settlements are always excluded from development projects and are called villages or informal settlements.
I think African people needs to wake up from slumbering and speak out this evil sengregation altitude of our leaders.
We fear... -
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I can remember sometimes ago in Nigeria, our social relationship or network then was very good and sound to an extent that people always reach out to each other most especially the common people but as things began to worst and worsen, everyone responsibilities made people to disconnected themselves from reaching out to others.
Corruption is eaten up our... -
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I can remember sometimes ago in Nigeria, our social relationship or network then was very good and sound to an extent that people always reach out to each other most especially the common people but as things began to worst and worsen, everyone responsibilities made people to disconnected themselves from reaching out to others.
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There's huge relationship between the informal and formal sectors and settlements and these relationship can not separated because formal sectors depends so much on informal sectors
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To be honest, formality can't do without informality. The powerful, wealthy and political people don't want to hear or accept this whereas in reality they know that the reality can not erased.
Frankly, their house help, cooks, cleaners,Gardner's, drivers are all informal and they don't want to see informal people around them. lolzzz -
Yes, but this system of intimidation have been since colonial era mostly in West Africa, then too that was how our grandparents pay to the maters and it's this same thing that is repeating in the system and that's why I was tell people that our system need upgrading and adjustment.
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Absolutely, there's nothing like informality. It's a condemnation word used for intimidation, segregatio and eviction and demolition by powerful people and government officials.
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ADELEKE ADEKUNLE made a comment
Informality in labour is done by most wealthy and powerful people in African countries and it's a very cheating practices because this so
called casuals are the set of people
that get the production done.
Casual labour is a way of reducing reducing the worth of labourers and labour.
These powerful actors in development
processes are still the... -
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I'm living in informal settlements in Nigeria and member of Nigeria Slum/informal settlements federation and Justice and Empowerment Initiative, assisting informal settlements and people like me to safeguard ourselves from government rules and regulations that does not includes settlements or take informal people into consideration, fight s against...
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ADELEKE ADEKUNLE made a comment
Very interesting.
I think African countries needs this approach in our land management and administration. A proper advocacy call for this is needed and I believed there's need to call NGO attention to this. Well good approach for upgrading and improvements. -
ADELEKE ADEKUNLE made a comment
Very interesting.
I think African countries needs this approach in our land management and administration. A proper advocacy call for this is needed and I believed there's need to call NGO attention to this. Well good approach for upgrading and improvements. -
ADELEKE ADEKUNLE made a comment
Good Slum upgrading initiative is land reclamation from slum dwellers but the annoying aspect of this is that most African countries government failed to recognised this efforts and initiative rather what they do is to ask them to pay same taxes with those on good land or threatening them with eviction. In Nigeria, our government have never for want to see...
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ADELEKE ADEKUNLE made a comment
Good Slum upgrading initiative is land reclamation from slum dwellers but the annoying aspect of this is that most African countries government failed to recognised this efforts and initiative rather what they do is to ask them to pay same taxes with those on good land or threatening them with eviction. In Nigeria, our government have never for want to see...
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ADELEKE ADEKUNLE made a comment
If in Sierra Leone with all these processes in land procurement, the country have not pu in place good land sales administration for both private and government land, I think all the process is wrong and there's need for advocacy on this.
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Land administration and recognition is what the Actors and powerful people are using to grab land from slum dwellers for their person interest and selfishness.
What can Slum / informal settlements dwellers do about this ?
Should they mobilize people to push for such bill in their national Assembly and such works in the country and if the Assembly members... -
ADELEKE ADEKUNLE made a comment
Development is always be unequal but people's livelihood can be enhanced through proper Land mechanism and management because people have different meaning to land ownership and usage. And to unify this proper Land legislation should be maintained and updated from time to time.
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ADELEKE ADEKUNLE made a comment
Lagos state in Nigeria, a well state to the world can be divided into two cities; Islands and Mainland communities.
These two communities consists of both developed communities and Informal/ Slums communities. Development on Island cities are not same compared to development in Mainland cities. Island cities are more developed than Mainland cities and... -
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Yes, what is happening in Porter - Rokuta is happening in every country in Africa. Infact, am speechless and it's like this our so called Leaders in this continent do have meetings or do copied themselves when it comes to development. Most of communities here in Nigeria lacked so many social facilities and services e.g water,schools, motorable roads, etc and...
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Very good write for learning. Urban poor people suffers alot from the Actors with their imposed development planning that does not allow inclusiveness and good representation.
In Nigeria social diversity most especially on Status needs to be addressed because it is main reason why Land grabbing and Forced eviction is happening here. Because during election... -
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Everyone need to represented and selected representation from Powerful people and Actors should be discourage.
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Traditionally, some spatial justice are done in many localities even during the colonial era because African people love comfort while spatial injustice was minimal. But since around the year 1980 in Nigeria, what
we are experiencing is spatial injustice. Because Land grabbing started around this period and it's rampant. Therefore Land owners thought... -
Yes, something to learn and for advancement correction.
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ADELEKE ADEKUNLE made a comment
Yes,most African countries like Sierra Leone failed to welcome planning as an essential and foremost tools in achieving development aims and objectives. Infacts till now,they have realised this an most took planning as one time thing and failed to realised that planning is a continuous process.
Urban planning and development should be a subject of... -
The post colonial and colonial periods have caused Africans alot is struggle in development. Actors in both periods failed to accept inclusive development, spatial development is what led us to urbanisation, discrimination an segregation.
Discrimination, segregation,negligence and bureaucracy in land administration during colonial periods is what regenerates... -
ADELEKE ADEKUNLE made a comment
This is a very good course that open my mind more on development,land grabbing and actors in the game.
Power struggle, competing intetest, different values and lack of negotiation by the powerful actors is called land grabbing in Nigeria. This makes development good for the powerful actors (people) and bad for most informal settlements people ( urban poor... -
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Urban development means a process inwhich an existing events leads to a new stage, improvement or a changing situation to an existing urban environment.
Urban Planing is the first an foremost managerial function that provides base for urban arrangements and functions through which aims and objectives of development can be achieved in any urban place.
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ADELEKE ADEKUNLE made a comment
Nice guide to the course. Thanks
