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Kinshasa: chaos, but still standing
Trained architect and urban-planner Nicolas-Patience Basabose shares his time between Kinshasa in the Congo and Johannesburg in South Africa. As head of Design for Basabose Studio, the research and design company he set up to focus on African urban planning and contemporary architecture, he shares with us the secrets of Kin,

Kinshasa, Dreams of remembrance
Diasporic tales don’t just offer up stories of place. They also tell of montages from other times. These times aren’t always the same-hope, nostalgia, or even waiting...Waiting to find your people again, or to meet them for the first time. Waiting for a reunion with a familiar country-where other narrative storylines draw themselves. Waiting.

Debrouillez vous: The Hustler’s Code
Everything I ever knew about hustling and negotiating was recalibrated, redefined, and refined in Kinshasa. This megacity did not come to play, a city that takes only herself seriously, and devours her inhabitants forcing us into habits that we never thought we would have, creativity we did not know was possible, and contradictions we do not want to mention

Kuukuwa Manful is an architect and an urban planner. She has an historical approach to studying the contemporary issues in the built environment. She curates Adansisem, a Ghanean architecture collective and she is also the co-founder of Sociarchi, a social architecture initiative which is using inovative solutions to solve environmental and social problems.

Far from the bustle, bumper-to-bumper bus or cab riding, and the unforgiving traffic jam of Accra, Ghana’s capital city, artists are finding comfort in Nubuke, an art institution located in the city’s East Legon neighbourhood. Nested in a field of greens, Nubuke’s new extended two-storey building overlooks its original compound house premises, in the opposite direction.

« The process begins in the global North »

Depending on your home location, fashion has a different impact on our lives and direct environment and even more when it comes to fast fashion.

Liz Ricketts and J Branson Skinner, both US fashion designers, zoomed into the secondhand clothing trade, studying the plate tectonics between the global North and Ghana where their NGO “The OR Foundation” is partially based.