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