Due to the increase in commercial farming, family farms in Africa have become less and less profitable. Rural families engage in subsistence agriculture. How has this led to the growth of cities? People are moving into the cities where there is plenty of lands available to grow commercial crops.

Africans make so much money with cash crops that they can afford to own second homes in big cities.

Since little money can be made in farming, people move to cities looking for work.

Commercials for agriculture make cities look inviting, so rural families sell farms and move.