16th April, 2014
Damilare Okunola
Lagos has been listed among seven other African cities on the emerging global cities index for 2014 which was released by A. T. Kearney recently.
The former Nigerian capital’s inclusion indicates how globally engaged it is and how quickly it has been able to catch up with the top performers on a number of leading human capital, business activity and information exchange, cultural experience and political engagement.
Other African cities on the index include, Cairo, which is the highest placed African city on the index, followed by Johannesburg, Nairobi, Cape Town, Casablanca, Addis Ababa and Tunis.
“Since we began the Global Cities Index, GCI in 2008, we have continually refreshed our metrics to reflect emerging trends, analyzed how cities evolved along each of them and developed insights about how a city can become more global.
“We have consistently tracked the evolution of 60 global cities over the past six years, to which we have added 24 more over the subsequent three editions. Taken together, the GCI and Emerging Cities Outlook, ECO, paint a revealing portrait of the global cities of today and tomorrow,” said A. T. Kearney.
Topping the global cities index is New York, closely followed by London, Paris, Tokyo and Hong Kong in that order.
Others are Los Angeles, Chicago, Beijing, Singapore and Washington, to make up the top ten cities on the global index which took eighty-four cities into consideration before coming up with the statistical analysis.