Everyday urban practices in Africa Disrupting global norms – Universities linking local realities and global policies

The event will launch the book “Everyday urban practices in Africa: Disrupting global norms”, edited by Nadine Appelhans, Carmel Rawhani, Marie Huchzermeyer, Basirat Oyalowo and Mfaniseni Sihlongonyane. The book is the result of a collaboration between Wits University, the Technische Universität Berlin and the University of Lagos.
The book examines international norms that inform urban development strategies in African cities against the backdrop of everyday lived experiences and practices in the continent’s rapidly growing, densely populated urban spaces and regions. Adopting international policy frameworks has created a new universal agenda for developing cities. However, these frameworks have also imposed global paradigms and discourses that are often at odds with local urbanisms.

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