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Delphine Diaw Diallo, working on collage

“I never thought about being African as such, so it didn’t mean anything to me, until much later in my life”

Sammy Baloji

Archival images are juxtaposed unto the modern-day factories in Lubumbashi. Illustrating the industrial culture of Congo, which is a country characterized by many mineral sources exploited by Belgian colonisers/modern day extraction companies.

Sammy Baloji was born in 1978 in Democratic Republic of Congo, he lives and works in Lubumbashi.