Within the churches, widespread nominalism is calling for re-evangelization.
Church planting falls far behind the growing demographics of the growing city.
But the focus of this special issue is not primarily on the church. It is on Africa's new urban context. I underline just a few of them in this editorial. The Growth of the African City Accurate statistics on demographic change are hard to come by. Since the early 1980s no census data has been available for almost half of the continent's countries.