| Rank
| City
| Country
| Population (2007)
|
| 1
| Cairo-Giza
| Image:Flag of Egypt.svg Egypt
| 15,907,574
|
| 2
| Lagos
| Image:Flag of Nigeria.svg Nigeria
| 11,615,563
|
| 3
| Kinshasa-Brazzaville
| Image:Flag of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.svg Democratic Republic of the Congo /
Image:Flag of the Republic of the Congo.svg Republic of the Congo
| 9,575,626
|
| 4
| Khartoum-Umm Durman-Bahri
| Image:Flag of Sudan.svg Sudan
| 8,363,915
|
| 5
| Johannesburg-Soweto
| Image:Flag of South Africa.svg South Africa
| 7,372,314
|
| 6
| Algiers
| Image:Flag of Algeria.svg Algeria
| 5,937,183
|
| 7
| Abidjan
| Image:Flag of Cote d'Ivoire.svg Côte d'Ivoire
| 5,317,003
|
| 8
| Ibadan
| Image:Flag of Nigeria.svg Nigeria
| 4,712,877
|
| 9
| Cape Town
| Image:Flag of South Africa.svg South Africa
| 4,709,212
|
| 10
| Alexandria
| Image:Flag of Egypt.svg Egypt
| 4,368,095
|
| 11
| Luanda
| Image:Flag of Angola.svg Angola
| 4,040,762
|
| 12
| Kano
| Image:Flag of Nigeria.svg Nigeria
| 4,033,069
|
| 13
| Nairobi
| Image:Flag of Kenya.svg Kenya
| 3,922,110
|
| 14
| Accra
| Image:Flag of Ghana.svg Ghana
| 3,554,218
|
| 15
| Durban
| Image:Flag of South Africa.svg South Africa
| 3,368,631
|
| 16
| Casablanca
| Image:Flag of Morocco.svg Morocco
| 3,209,054
|
| 17
| Harare-Chitungwiza
| Image:Flag of Zimbabwe.svg Zimbabwe
| 2,919,512
|
| 18
| Dar es Salaam
| Image:Flag of Tanzania.svg Tanzania
| 2,915,979
|
| 19
| Addis Abeba
| Image:Flag of Ethiopia.svg Ethiopia
| 2,888,248
|
| 20
| Mogadishu
| Image:Flag of Somalia.svg Somalia
| 2,855,805
|
| 21
| Dakar
| Image:Flag of Senegal.svg Senegal
| 2,461,682
|
| 22
| Lusaka
| Image:Flag of Zambia.svg Zambia
| 2,389,572
|
| 23
| Pretoria-Verwoerdburg
| Image:Flag of South Africa.svg South Africa
| 2,187,172
|
| 24
| Conakry
| Image:Flag of Guinea.svg Guinea
| 2,064,236
|
| 25
| Tunis-Aryanah-at-Tadaman Dawwar Hisar
| Image:Flag of Tunisia.svg Tunisia
| 2,028,662
|
| 26
| Yaoundé
| Image:Flag of Cameroon.svg Cameroon
| 1,928,882
|
| 27
| Maputo-Matola
| Image:Flag of Mozambique.svg Mozambique
| 1,926,940
|
| 28
| Tripoli
| Image:Flag of Libya.svg Libya
| 1,894,852
|
| 29
| Douala
| Image:Flag of Cameroon.svg Cameroon
| 1,834,817
|
| 30
| Bamako
| Image:Flag of Mali.svg Mali
| 1,761,659
|
| 31
| Monrovia
| Image:Flag of Liberia.svg Liberia
| 1,751,688
|
| 32
| Kampala
| Image:Flag of Uganda.svg Uganda
| 1,735,918
|
| 33
| Antanarivo
| Image:Flag of Madagascar.svg Madagascar
| 1,733,226
|
| 34
| Rabat
| Image:Flag of Morocco.svg Morocco
| 1,721,760
|
| 35
| Oshogbo-Ede-Inisa
| Image:Flag of Nigeria.svg Nigeria
| 1,675,704
|
| 36
| Kaduna
| Image:Flag of Nigeria.svg Nigeria
| 1,652,844
|
| 37
| Kumasi
| Image:Flag of Ghana.svg Ghana
| 1,604,909
|
| 38
| Port Harcourt
| Image:Flag of Nigeria.svg Nigeria
| 1,499,603
|
| 39
| Lubumbashi
| Image:Flag of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.svg Democratic Republic of the Congo
| 1,485,288
|
| 40
| N'Djaména-Kousséri
| Image:Flag of Chad.svg Chad/Image:Flag of Cameroon.svg Cameroon
| 1,471,881
|
| 41
| Kisangani
| Image:Flag of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.svg Democratic Republic of the Congo
| 1,326,778
|
| 42
| Port Elizabeth-Uitenhage
| Image:Flag of South Africa.svg South Africa
| 1,319,177
|
| 43
| Mbuji-Mayi
| Image:Flag of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.svg Democratic Republic of the Congo
| 1,221,333
|
| 44
| Maiduguri
| Image:Flag of Nigeria.svg Nigeria
| 1,197,497
|
| 45
| Benin
| Image:Flag of Nigeria.svg Nigeria
| 1,167,327
|
| 46
| Benghazi
| Image:Flag of Libya.svg Libya
| 1,166,063
|
| 47
| Onitsha-Nnewi-Okpoko-Obosi
| Image:Flag of Nigeria.svg Nigeria
| 1,156,380
|
| 48
| Ouagadougou
| Image:Flag of Burkina Faso.svg Burkina Faso
| 1,152,402
|
| 49
| Bouaké
| Image:Flag of Cote d'Ivoire.svg Côte d'Ivoire
| 1,126,623
|
| 50
| Ogbomosho
| Image:Flag of Nigeria.svg Nigeria
| 1,098,912
|
| 51
| Asmara
| Image:Flag of Eritrea.svg Eritrea
| 1,091,388
|
| 52
| Zaria
| Image:Flag of Nigeria.svg Nigeria
| 1,018,927
|
| 53
| Aba
| Image:Flag of Nigeria.svg Nigeria
| 1,012,762
|
| 54
| Fes
| Image:Flag of Morocco.svg Morocco
| 1,001,798
|
