Africa's urban revolution in context / Edgar Pieterse and Susan Parnell -- Conflict and post-war transition in African cities / Jo Beall and Tom Goodfellow -- Sub-Saharan African urbanisation and global environmental change / Susan Parnell and Ruwani Walawege -- Linking urbanisation and development in Africa's economic revival / Ivan Turok -- Religion and social life in African cities / Carole Rakodi -- Feeding African cities : the growing challenge of urban food insecurity / Jonathan Crush and Bruce Frayne -- Transport pressures in urban Africa : practices, policies, perspectives / Gordon Pirie -- Decentralisation and institutional reconfiguration in urban Africa / Warren Smit and Edgar Pieterse -- The challenge of urban planning law reform in African cities / Stephen Berrisford -- The education and research imperatives of urban planning professionals in Africa / James Duminy, Nancy Odendaal and Vanessa Watson -- Filling the void : an agenda for tackling African urbanisation / Edgar Pieterse -- Infrastructure, real economies and social transformation : assembling the components for regional urban development in Africa / AbdouMaliq Simone -- National urbanisation and urban strategies : necessary but absent policy instruments in Africa / Susan Parnell and David Simon -- Urbanisation as a global historical process : theory and evidence from sub-Saharan Africa / Sean Fox -- Postscript : building new knowledge and networks to foster sustainable urban development / Thomas Melin.