AFROPOLIS

Urbanscapes from Africa through image and sound. Featured countries: Ethiopia, Mauritania, Mali and Senegal

For long, urban theorists have considered African metropolises either failed cities with hardly any services available, or more optimistically constant works-in-progress, and recently even as areas where the existing informal economies and social networks can teach us lessons for other rapidly growing urban areas.

So, how is it? I am about to find out.

Featured Works

Photography and podcasts with stories on and by people living in urban environments in centres, peripheries and in-betweens.

Addis Ababa Bamako Dakar Nouakchott

About Afropolis

Afropolis is a multidisciplinary art project presenting urban Africa through photography, sound and podcasts by Jarmo Pikkujamsa, researcher and artist living and working in Senegal.

Afropolis latest blog entry: Addis is not decaf

Exhibition calendar

Ndar Ndar Music & Café, Saint-Louis, Senegal
November-December 2019
Photographs

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jp@afropolis.africa

+221 77 143 88 90