Jean Katambayi Mukendi: Circuits is the first comprehensive monograph dedicated to the Congolese artist on the occasion of his solo exhibitions at M HKA (Antwerp) and KW Institute for Contemporary Art (Berlin). Spanning his career from its inception to the present, the volume combines richly illustrated pages with insightful texts that situate Katambayi’s work within contemporary art history, African thought, and the cultural context of present-day Lubumbashi. It includes interviews, an ess...

Reading African cities into contemporary theory - reprint of a richly illustrated reference work.

In their internationally acclaimed publication 'Kinshasa: Tales of the Invisible City', anthropologist Filip De Boeck and photographer Marie-Françoise Plissart provide a history not only of the physical and visible urban reality that Kinshasa presents today, but also of a second, invisible city as it exists in the mind and imagination of its inhabitants. They bring to light a mirroring reality l...