ABSTRACT
Contemporary urbanization in Africa underscores infrastructural development, new market opportunities, technological innovation, science and business expansions. The convergence of opportunistic values embedded in this has revolutionized and triggered the development of megacities in Africa. However, the rapid growth of the so-called self-contained megacities neither represents the intrinsic values embedded in sustainable urban development nor portrays the climate urbanism that Africa’s megacities claim to symbolize. Thus, there is a mismatch between megacities’ challenges and the current reality of mushrooming megacities in Africa. This has raised a fundamental debate regarding the incongruity between the anticipated policy objectives for sustainable development and the recent climate urbanism that intends to mitigate carbon footprints in the cities. This chapter addresses these issues by interrogating the extent to which Africa’s megacities have adopted sustainable urbanism and climate urbanism to inform future urbanization policies.
