African Mobilities

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African Mobilities: This is not a refugee camp exhibition

At the African Mobilities exhibition in 2018, Mariam Issoufou presented the Niamey 2000 Housing. The exhibition, which was curated by Dr Mpho Matsipa and held at the The Architekturmuseum der TU München, explored how architecture responds to the complexities of migration and the circulation of people, ideas, resources and aesthetics – both in physical space and in spaces of the imagination. Dr Matsipa said: “This exhibition also explores how freedom remains a scarce and unequally distributed commodity – and how the freedom to move is increasingly becoming the principal stratifyer in the longue durée of modernity, coloniality and neo-liberal capitalism. Furthermore, it seeks to destabilise northern discussions on African mobility and their preoccupation with the large numbers of people from Africa, Asia and Eastern Europe moving to the centres of global capital.”