Fasselt, RebeccaEromosele, FemiSongsore, Lwanga2025-11-202025-11-202024Rebecca Fasselt, Femi Eromosele & Lwanga Songsore (2024) African urbanisms and their hinterlands: contemporary cultural imaginaries of spatial connections, Social Dynamics, 50:3, 267-276, DOI: 10.1080/02533952.2025.2562642.0253-3952 (print)1940-7874 (online)10.1080/02533952.2025.2562642http://hdl.handle.net/2263/105400This article introduces the special issue on “African urbanisms and their hinterlands: contemporary cultural imaginaries of spatial connections”. It conceives of the relationship between the urban and the hinterland as non-dichotomous and makes an argument for the complex entanglements of African rural and urban cultural Imaginaries. Here, the interland is offered as a concept with diverse uses and appropriations across a range of African cultural forms.en© 2025 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).African urbanismHinterlandAfrican popular cultureRural-urban connectionsAfrican cultural imaginariesArticle