An ethnographic and photographic investigation into the complex meanings of living in Congo's urban worlds today.

The authors, anthropologist Filip De Boeck and photographer Sammy Baloji, take the reader on a tour of specific urban sites in Kinshasa and beyond.  They examine how, amid the chaos of a decaying colonial legacy and the unfulfilled promises of neoliberal futures, certain sites emerge as suturing points where the possibilities of collective urban action and dreams of a shared future continue to be explored.

Published to accompany, and expand on, Sammy Baloji's touring exhibition of this work.

Filip De Boeck is professor of Anthropology at the Institute for Anthropological Research in Africa (IARA), a research unit of the Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium. Sammy Baloji is a visual artist based in Brussels and Lubumbashi. His work has been exhibited and published internationally.

Published by Autograph 2016, with publishing partner Gallery Imane Farès and in association with WIELS Contemporary Art Centre and The Power Plant Contemporary Art Gallery

Edited by: Mark Sealy

Pages: 329

Images: 171

Dimensions 195mm x 250mm

Hardcover with jacket

ISBN: 978-1-899282-19-7

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