On the occasion of the World Urban Forum in Rio de Janeiro, Kerwin Datu speaks with Professor Edgar Pieterse, director of the African Centre for Cities at the University of Cape Town, on retheorising the African city, the politics of Africa's mega-regions, and the myths that constrain urban policy on the continent.
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Vadim Rossman is a professor at the Higher School of Economics, St Petersburg.
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