In 2019, Kinshasa counts some thirteen million inhabitants. By 2075, demographers expect that it will be home to forty million more. With such numbers and from a history, both colonial and postcolonial, often marred by political and economic violence, comes a strikingly complex urban experience. Kinshasa Chronicles is a richly textured encounter with this experience: seventy artists, most of whom belong to a very young generation, meet up here to tell tales of one of the world’s most vibrant creative hubs. They address multiple themes – “performance city”, “sport city”, “music city”, “look city”, “capital(ist) city”, “spirit city”, “DIY city”, “future city”, “memory city” – and deploy a rich palette of media, including photography, video, ...
What does the nebulous idea of living together in a place such as Kinshasa mean? And what is the rol...
BRAVE NEW WORLDS An Investigation between Congo and China In 2010 the Chinese government founded a ...
This city profile of Kinshasa in DR Congo was prepared by Pascal Kapagama, professor of sociology at...
This exhibition by photographer Sammy Baloji and anthropologist Filip De Boeck offers an exploration...
This lecture addressed the tensions between life as lived on the ground by millions of urban residen...
As elsewhere on the African continent, Congo’s cities increasingly imagine new futures for themselve...
In this selection, from Tim Edensor and Mark Jayne’s Urban Theory Beyond the West (2011) urban anthr...
The DRC’s capital is set to become Africa’s largest city, but struggles to assert its authority over...
For some years now, scholars in a range of fields have been arguing that canonical approaches to urb...
"Kinshasa: Tales of the Invisible City offers an original analysis of the Democratic Republic of Con...
Focusing upon the ‘urban now’, a moment suspended between lingering precolonial references, the brok...
Short Abstract Building upon recent ethnographic work with land chiefs in Kinshasa,this papers exp...
Kinshasa, the capital of the DRCongo, is a city that counts amongst the African continent’s largest ...
The development of the sub-Saharan African large cities peripheries is marked by sprawl, excess and ...
The contemporary urban landscape of Kinshasa is scattered with numerous billboards presenting shiny ...
What does the nebulous idea of living together in a place such as Kinshasa mean? And what is the rol...
BRAVE NEW WORLDS An Investigation between Congo and China In 2010 the Chinese government founded a ...
This city profile of Kinshasa in DR Congo was prepared by Pascal Kapagama, professor of sociology at...
This exhibition by photographer Sammy Baloji and anthropologist Filip De Boeck offers an exploration...
This lecture addressed the tensions between life as lived on the ground by millions of urban residen...
As elsewhere on the African continent, Congo’s cities increasingly imagine new futures for themselve...
In this selection, from Tim Edensor and Mark Jayne’s Urban Theory Beyond the West (2011) urban anthr...
The DRC’s capital is set to become Africa’s largest city, but struggles to assert its authority over...
For some years now, scholars in a range of fields have been arguing that canonical approaches to urb...
"Kinshasa: Tales of the Invisible City offers an original analysis of the Democratic Republic of Con...
Focusing upon the ‘urban now’, a moment suspended between lingering precolonial references, the brok...
Short Abstract Building upon recent ethnographic work with land chiefs in Kinshasa,this papers exp...
Kinshasa, the capital of the DRCongo, is a city that counts amongst the African continent’s largest ...
The development of the sub-Saharan African large cities peripheries is marked by sprawl, excess and ...
The contemporary urban landscape of Kinshasa is scattered with numerous billboards presenting shiny ...
What does the nebulous idea of living together in a place such as Kinshasa mean? And what is the rol...
BRAVE NEW WORLDS An Investigation between Congo and China In 2010 the Chinese government founded a ...
This city profile of Kinshasa in DR Congo was prepared by Pascal Kapagama, professor of sociology at...