ABSTRACT
Mid-way on a 15-year journey towards achieving the Sustainable Development Goals in 2030, there is need for reflection and deliberation on a post-2030 agenda. Therefore, this chapter contributes to an unfolding discussion about different urban futures. This includes alternative politics towards disrupting the dominant discourses in global policy frameworks to fundamentally challenge the logic of universal modernity within UN-Habitat and nations implicitly adopting a modernist mindset through the United Nations agenda. Grounded in literature on transformative politics and with a decolonising mindset, the chapter looks at the policy implications of the everyday in the chapters of the book Everyday urban practices in Africa: Disrupting global norms under four themes, namely heterogeneity, fluid belongings, persistence, and interplay. It discusses the pointers that the authors in the book offer towards current and future transformative agendas for research, partnerships, balanced discourse, and local engagement for agenda setting via regional bodies at the global level.The chapter calls for a rigorous interrogation of the attitudes, methods, and means of policymaking, policy transfer, and policy implementation in the current international policy system and asserts the need for a shift in mindset towards affirming urban Africa and the global South in the urban discourses of the future.
