The smart city discourse has been a dominant feature of city policies in the last twenty years. Academically the debates have centered around private sector interference in local governance, and the limitations of what is essentially a continuation of modernist planning. This reflection focuses on theoretical and expirical explorations of the ‘real smart city’ in Africa, and the interface between urban livelihoods, technology appropriation and the making of places. 

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