From the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs): Africa in the post-2015 development agenda: a geographical perspective, part 1

This special issue of the ‘African Geographical Review’ offers a multifaceted geographical perspective on Africa’s development in the global post-2015 development agenda. Contributions: Advancing African agency in the new 2030 transformative development agenda (Hany Besada, Jiajun Xu, Annalise Mathers & Richard Carey); From global goals to regional strategies: towards an African approach to SDGs (Giovanni Valensisi & Stephen Karingi); Can using geographical factors leverage private equity to deliver sustainable development results? (Frannie A. Lautier); Reproducing spaces of embeddedness through Islamic NGOs in Sub-Saharan Africa: reflections on the post-2015 development agenda (M. Evren Tok & Ben O’Bright); Engaging with and measuring informality in the proposed Urban Sustainable Development Goal (Helen Arfvidsson, David Simon, Michael Oloko & Nishendra Moodley); MDGs to SDGs – new goals, same gaps: the continued absence of urban food security in the post-2015 global development agenda (Jane Battersby). [ASC Leiden abstract]