This is the second of the four papers included in the third session (Modern Housing and the Instant Welfare State) of the ArchiAfrika Conference, held in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania between July 27 and 29 2005. Bert Lemmens is a student at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven in Belgium. Daan van Tassel is a researcher at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven in Belgium.