FORGING
URBAN CITIZENSHIP
A DIGITAL EXHIBITION ON ART, ACTIVISM AND CREATIVE WORLD-MAKING IN AFRICAN CITIES
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The Artists
KENYA
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01 Dorphanage →PROJECT: THE BURDEN OF THOUGHT
DISCIPLINE: SPOKEN WORD POETRY
TAGS: INTROSPECTION // SOCIAL CRITIQUE // HIP-HOP -
02 MC Sharon →PROJECT: PROJECT BLACK SPOT
DISCIPLINE: RAP / PAINTING / WRITING
TAGS: GENRE-BENDING // AFRO-FUSION // GREEN HOUSE MOVEMENT -
03 Muthoni Mwangi →PROJECT: GAME OF PROTESTS
DISCIPLINE: VISUAL COLLAGE / RESEARCH
TAGS: CLASSISM // VIRTUAL GALLERY // MIGRATION -
04 Willie OebaPROJECT: I am not a poet, my life is a poem
DISCIPLINE: MULTIDISCIPLINARY
TAGS: KENYA -
05 Social Justice Centres Travelling Theatre →PROJECT: FLASH MOBS & URBAN POLITICS
DISCIPLINE: THEATRE / PUBLIC ART
TAGS: CIVIC ENGAGEMENT // MURALS // 2027 ELECTION
MALAWI
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06 Desiree Michelle Nkhavitha →PROJECT: THE NIGHT DUTY
DISCIPLINE: THEATRE / PHYSICAL PERFORMANCE
TAGS: WOMANHOOD // INSTITUTIONAL NEGLECT // SURVIVAL -
07 Natalia Provah Pedro →PROJECT: ABSTRACT EXPRESSIONISM
DISCIPLINE: ACRYLIC ON CANVAS
TAGS: HUMANITY // IDENTITY // FEMINISM // PEACE -
08 Samson Apatsa Banda →PROJECT: BREDAH
DISCIPLINE: MUSIC + DOCUMENTARY
TAGS: DANCEHALL // GHETTO YOUTH // RESILIENCE -
09 Sean Morgan →PROJECT: GHETTO GRADING / BREDAH
DISCIPLINE: MULTIDISCIPLINARY
TAGS: MALAWI -
10 Nadimba Promise →PROJECT: CHIKOPA (THE HIDE)
DISCIPLINE: MIXED-MEDIA PORTRAIT
TAGS: POLITICAL AUTHORITY // ANIMAL HIDE // EXPRESSIONISM
ZIMbabwe
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11 Allience Goriwoto →PROJECT: MARWADZO ASINGAONEKWI
DISCIPLINE: MUSIC / VISUAL STORYTELLING
TAGS: INVISIBLE PAIN // DEPRESSION // EMPATHY -
12 Eresina Hwede →PROJECT: THE HIJACK
DISCIPLINE: THEATRE SKIT / WRITING
TAGS: UNEMPLOYMENT // SOCIAL CONTRACT // POTHOLE POLITICS -
13 Gregory Luiz Sibanda →PROJECT: MAKOKOBA MICROCOSM
DISCIPLINE: PHOTOGRAPHY / AUDIOVISUAL ESSAY
TAGS: TOWNSHIP ARCHIVE // INFORMAL TRADE // BULAWAYO -
14 Memory Chirere →PROJECT: GRAFFITI ART & POETRY IN HARARE
DISCIPLINE: POETRY / PHOTOGRAPHY
TAGS: URBAN INTERVENTION // CLASS IDENTITY // POLITICAL COMMENTARY -
15 Musariri Musariri →PROJECT: MUMVURI WEMASHOKO (SHADOWS OF WORDS)
DISCIPLINE: EKPHRASTIC POETRY / PHOTOGRAPHY
TAGS: AFROFUTURISM // RESISTANCE // DIGITAL HUMANITIES -
16 Tatenda Kimberley Gakanje →PROJECT: URBAN SPACES
DISCIPLINE: INTERACTIVE INSTALLATION
TAGS: BATIK // TIE-DYE // SENSORY EXPLORATION // BELONGING
About
Sixteen artists. Three nations. One collaborative effort to examine how youth-led creative activism is reshaping civic cultures from below.
“Urban citizenship emerges as a permanent work-in-progress, an unfinished (and unfinishable) work of art under construction and open to new impulses from the dreams, hopes, refusals, protests, and resistances of urban dwellers.”
— About the Project