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Akurakuda is a graphic novella that emerges from the world of Mad Horse City, a project by Olalekan Jeyifous and Wale Lawal, and explores Lagos 100 years in the future.
AFRICAN MOBILITIES

Excerpt: Akurakuda by Olalekan Jeyifous and Wale Lawal

‘Akurakuda’, a graphic novel by Olalekan Jeyifous and Wale Lawal is set in a futuristic Lagos that acknowledges the resilience of dispossessed people

  • Mpho Matsipa
1 min read
African solutions: The typha australis reed grows on the banks of the Senegal River and provides excellent thermal insulation. (Photo: Worofila)
AFRICAN MOBILITIES

On bioclimatic architecture: ‘We have our own science, but we have forgotten how to transmit it’

This conversation between Mpho Matsipa and Mamadou Jean-Charles Tall, focusing on bio-climatic architecture in Senegal, is part of the larger African Mobilities project

  • Mpho Matsipa
4 min read
A still from Im/mobility and the Afro-Imaginary, a split-screen film depicting the decades-long containing of Black people in urban spaces and the increasing push back.
BLACKLIVESMATTER

The Portfolio: Global Africa Lab

A project by Global Africa Lab explores the future of Black neighbourhoods affected by gentrification in New York City

  • Global Africa Lab
3 min read
Congolese photographer Sammy Baloji’s Essay on Urban Planning interrogates the links between colonialism, extractive practices and environmental catastrophes in Urban Africa.
AFRICAN MOBILITIES
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Extractive histories and a waste-laden present: On Sammy Baloji’s Essay on Urban Planning

Congolese photographer Sammy Baloji’s Essay on Urban Planning interrogates the links between colonialism, extractive practices and environmental catastrophes in Urban Africa

  • Mpho Matsipa
  • Sindi-Leigh McBride
5 min read