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An ethnographic and photographic investigation into the complex meanings of living in Congo's urban worlds today.
Focusing upon the 'urban now', a moment suspended between lingering precolonial references, the broken dreams of a colonial past, and the not yet realised promises of neoliberal futures, this book provides an ethnographic and photographic investigation of the complex meanings of living - and living together - 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. In their detailed analysis these sites emerge as suturing points in which the possibilities of collective urban action and dreams of a shared future continue to be explored.
Filip De Boeck is a professor of Social and Cultural Anthropology at KU Leuven.
Sammy Baloji is a visual artist based in Brussels and Lubumbashi. His work has been exhibited and published internationally.
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