Introduction

Inclusivity challenges that are prevailing in African cities and beyond, require concerted multi-thronged efforts from allstakeholders to address them. This is so because inclusivity issues cannot just be viewed from a narrow periscopebut a comprehensive spectrum of inputs and actions. On the strength of the aforesaid, it became expedient for theSARChI-Chair for Inclusive Cities to organise a critical symposium that interrogated the concept of inclusivity froma multi-disciplinary dimension. Such an enquiry into the nature and extent of urban inclusivity in an African citycontext, provides an appropriate platform to understand factors underpinning the need to establish desired inclusivity(Medayese et al., 2016)