Afrique capitales

Afrique capitales
Title Afrique capitales PDF eBook
Author Edoardo Di Muro
Publisher Sepia
Pages 168
Release 1995
Genre Capitals (Cities)
ISBN

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Edition bilingue anglais-français. Ce livre retrace l'itinéraire africain d'un artiste hors du commun. Etapes marquantes d'un périple entamé il y a un quart de siècle ; le Sénégal, où Edoardo Di Muro vécut près de dix ans, où il fonda une famille et où son travail artistique connut ses premières consécrations ; le Cameroun et le Nigeria, qu'il parcourut à plusieurs reprises de long en large ; la Côte d'Ivoire, où il plongeait avec autant de délectation dans la foule de l'immense marché d'Adjamé qu'il aimait partir, seul, débusquer les pachydermes et les fauves du parc de la Comoé ; l'Ethiopie, enfin, pour laquelle il éprouva un véritable coup de foudre et où il a choisi de s'établir avec les siens. Les dessins d'Edoardo Di Muro ne se regardent pas comme des œuvres d'art " ordinaires ". Ils s'apprécient grandement aussi pour leur valeur documentaire. On admire le détail architectural des magnifiques maisons " brésiliennes " de Lagos ou des solides bâtisses coloniales de Douala. On s'attarde sur les feuillages des arbres, omniprésents et rendus avec un souci de la précision obsessionnel. Les particularités vestimentaires ne relèvent jamais du hasard ; le motif de tel pagne ou de tel tee-shirt situe précisément le lieu et l'époque du dessin.Les coiffures, les scarifications et autres marques corporelles identifient quant à elles tel peuple de tel pays. Sous la plume d'Edoardo Di Muro, l'Afrique des villes apparaît ainsi avec la variété des ses formes d'habitat, sa diversité ethnique, ses contrastes sociaux. Et aussi avec l'humour et la joie de vivre dont ses habitants, à l'instar du dessinateur italien, ne se départissent jamais

Capital Cities/Les Capitales

Capital Cities/Les Capitales
Title Capital Cities/Les Capitales PDF eBook
Author John H. Taylor
Publisher McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Pages 436
Release 1993
Genre Capitals (Cities)
ISBN 0886291798

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An unusual look at the nature and role of capital cities around the world - past, present and future. The 24 papers by scholars from many countries and disciplines present their thinking on capital cities, with contributions from Amos Rapoport, Claude Raffestin, Peter Hall and Anthony Sutcliffe. 16 papers in English, 8 in French.

Afriques capitales

Afriques capitales
Title Afriques capitales PDF eBook
Author Simon Njami
Publisher
Pages 0
Release 2017
Genre Art
ISBN 9783868287929

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The publication accompanies two exhibitions curated by Simon Njami and presents works by more than sixty internationally renowned artists. The works, some of which have been created specifically for this project, provide a unique overview of the contemporary art scene in Africa, including all media, from painting and photography to video and installation. Divided into two chapters, the first is dedicated to African cities while the second invites readers to a journey to the Cape of Good Hope, the catalogue strives to represent the young and creative art scene of the African continent in all its complexity.

Congoville

Congoville
Title Congoville PDF eBook
Author Pieter Boons
Publisher Leuven University Press
Pages 272
Release 2021-06-01
Genre Political Science
ISBN 9462702365

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One hundred years after the founding of the École Coloniale Supérieure in Antwerp, the adjacent Middelheim Museum invites Sandrine Colard, researcher and curator, to conceive an exhibition that probes silenced histories of colonialism in a site-specific way. For Colard, the term Congoville encompasses the tangible and intangible urban traces of the colony, not on the African continent but in 21st-century Belgium: a school building, a park, imperial myths, and citizens of African descent. In the exhibition and this adjoining publication, the concept Congoville is the starting point for 15 contemporary artists to address colonial history and ponder its aftereffects as black flâneurs walking through a postcolonial city. Due to the multitude of perspectives and voices, this book is both a catalogue and a reference work comprised of artistic and academic contributions. Together, the participating artists and invited authors unfold the blueprint of Congoville, an imaginary city that still subconsciously affects us, but also encourages us to envision a decolonial utopia. Een eeuw na de oprichting van de École Coloniale Supérieure in Antwerpen nodigt het naburige Middelheimmuseum onderzoeker en curator Sandrine Colard uit om een tentoonstelling te creëren die sitespecifiek peilt naar de stille geschiedenissen van het kolonialisme. Congoville duidt op de zichtbare en onzichtbare stedelijke sporen van de kolonie, niet op het Afrikaanse continent, maar pal in het België van vandaag: een schoolgebouw, een park, imperialistische mythes en burgers van Afrikaanse origine. Doorheen de tentoonstelling en deze bijhorende publicatie is Congoville de context waarbinnen 15 hedendaagse kunstenaars, als zwarte flâneurs op pad in een postkoloniale stad, het koloniale verleden en de impact ervan adresseren. Door de veelheid aan perspectieven en stemmen is dit boek tegelijk een catalogus en een naslagwerk met zowel academische als artistieke bijdragen. Samen ontvouwen de betrokken kunstenaars en auteurs de blauwdruk van Congoville, een imaginaire stad die ons nog steeds onbewust in haar greep houdt, maar ons ook aanspoort om na te denken over een de-koloniaal utopia. With contributions by/Met bijdragen van: Pieter Boons, Sandrine Colard, Filip De Boeck, Bas De Roo, Nadia Yala Kisukidi, Sorana Munsya & Léonard Pongo, Herman Van Goethem, Sara Weyns, Nabilla Ait Daoud Participating artists/Deelnemende kunstenaars: Sammy Baloji, Bodys Isek Kingelez, Maurice Mbikayi, Jean Katambayi, KinAct Collective, Simone Leigh, Hank Willis Thomas, Zahia Rahmani, Ibrahim Mahama, Ângela Ferreira, Kapwani Kiwanga, Sven Augustijnen, Pascale Marthine Tayou, Elisabetta Benassi, Pélagie Gbaguidi For more information, visit www.middelheimmuseum.be/nl/activiteit/congoville

The Governance of Daily Life in Africa

The Governance of Daily Life in Africa
Title The Governance of Daily Life in Africa PDF eBook
Author Giorgio Blundo
Publisher BRILL
Pages 358
Release 2009
Genre Social Science
ISBN 9004171282

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Anchored in an empirically-grounded anthropology, this book explores the notion of governance in a non-normative way. It describes and analyses the institutional and political processes through which social actors and groups - be they state, private or 'third-sector' - contribute to the provision of public and collective goods or services. The book draws on case studies from Anglophone and Francophone Africa, crossing anthropological traditions that have too often evolved in parallel directions and dealing with a range of topics such as health, water supply, sanitation and waste management, security, humanitarian aid, land issues and decentralisation. Beyond African boundaries, it contributes to current debates about governmentality, public policy, subject making, public/private boundaries, and the role of the state.

Title PDF eBook
Author
Publisher Odile Jacob
Pages 465
Release
Genre
ISBN 2738188966

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Urban Planning in Sub-Saharan Africa

Urban Planning in Sub-Saharan Africa
Title Urban Planning in Sub-Saharan Africa PDF eBook
Author Carlos Nunes Silva
Publisher Routledge
Pages 328
Release 2015-06-03
Genre Architecture
ISBN 1317753178

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Cities in Sub-Saharan Africa are unequally confronted with social, economic and environmental challenges, particularly those related with population growth, urban sprawl, and informality. This complex and uneven African urban condition requires an open discussion of past and current urban planning practices and future reforms. Urban Planning in Sub-Saharan Africa gives a broad perspective of the history of urban planning in Sub-Saharan Africa and a critical view of issues, problems, challenges and opportunities confronting urban policy makers. The book examines the rich variety of planning cultures in Africa, offers a unique view on the introduction and development of urban planning in Sub-Saharan Africa, and makes a significant contribution against the tendency to over-generalize Africa’s urban problems and Africa’s urban planning practices. Urban Planning in Sub-Saharan Africa is written for postgraduate students and advanced undergraduates, researchers, planners and other policy makers in the multidisciplinary field of Urban Planning, in particular for those working in Spatial Planning, Architecture, Geography, and History.