Effect of Traffic Jam on African cities: A Case of Kampala, Kigali and Lilongwe from 2014 – 2018

*Henry Stanley Mbowa – Kampala University, Uganda
William Mudahemuka – University of Tourism, Technology and Business Studies, Rwanda
James Isaac Magaleta – Malawi Adventist University, Malawi
Nzaghale Charles – Rwenzori International University, Uganda
Prof. Lazarus Ndiku Makewa – Rwenzori International University, Uganda
*Correspondent Author: mbowa200@gmail.com

Abstract: Traffic jam remains problematic in most cities across the globe with consequential phenomena like massive delays, monetary losses, fuel wastage, and accidents and death. The paper was to examined causes and effect of traffic jam in Kampala, Kigali and Lilongwe cities in Africa. The paper employed documentary, case study and correlation designs using both qualitative and quantitative data collection approaches. The study targeted a total of 60 online published articles from which a sample of 36 articles. Data was collected through documentary review online published articles on traffic jam and recorded using a data collection sheet. The data collected was organized, coded and entered into the SPSS software for cleaning to generate the descriptive and inferential statistics, while qualitative data was transcribed, grouped into themes and analyzed using the content value analysis. The findings indicate that major causes of traffic jam in the studied cities are increase of private vehicles, unregulated road junctions, temporary road function, informal street and roadside trades, and poor bumpy roads with potholes.