African Urban Studies: Contributions and Challenges
回顾《城市研究》期刊五十年间发表的非洲城市研究，总结其贡献、指出知识生产的不足，并展望未来方向，适合关注非洲城市化及全球城市研究的学者快速判断是否阅读原文。
Scholarship on African cities represents a growing yet still scarce subfield in urban studies, especially considering the scale and variety of African urbanisation patterns. The purpose of this Virtual Special Issue is to review the scholarship published on urban Africa in Urban Studies over the past five decades. In this Editorial, we reflect on the contributions of African urban scholarship and present a selection of articles to highlight the ways in which it has shaped key fields of urban studies. We also note the challenges that underpin ongoing lacunae in urban knowledge production and suggest directions for future work. This discussion provides a lens on our understandings of the urban condition in Africa and the general trajectory of urban scholarship.