• A novel GIS-AHP-GSV-based methodology for walkability assessment in African cities.
• Robust segment importance assessment through three independent dimensions (POI accessibility, Population density and Betweenness centrality), each contributing unique variance.
• Local stakeholder-driven weighting scheme through group judgement and AHP providing context-specific weights.
• Validation through Moran’s I statistics, demonstrating clustered patterns rather than random distributions.