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Essay on Urban Planning
1media/d7hftxdivxxvm.cloudfront.net_thumb.jpeg2023-03-06T19:41:14-08:00Eden Gooldc32dc902c338ab3b48296f4b18566dab1b21abe1424524The essay on Urban Planning puts twelve rectangular aerial photographs from the past and present of Lubumbashi with photos of classified specimens of flies and mosquitoes. The aerial photographs from the past show the visible corridors created between white and Black settlements in colonial times for security and hygiene reasons. The Belgians set up quarantine areas around fly invested areas but used it as an excuse to segregate and control movement. Along with his piece Sammy Beloji cites The Development of the Congo, written in 1931 in which a provincial engineer in Katanga explains the zones in between the white and Black settlements. [It] divides the lives of blacks from those of whites: it keeps the latter safe from the sources of malaria, and from the rowdy activities of blacks, so creating completely independent living conditions for each race . . . it is a true cordon sanitaire, placed at a right angle from the prevailing winds . . . our urban planning contents itself with creating developments that satisfy conditions of hygiene, salubrity and security, giving the white and black races the opportunity to live according to the hopes and needs of each, however modest these might be. Beloji notes that Malaria materialized as dirt in the minds of the colonists. Sirt is invisible but becomes visible when associated with an impurity—malaria and the “...racialized other.” In his installation dirt is absent but “...displayed in the cordon sanitaire corridor, which was designed to put colonials away from the “dirt” of colonized peoples, to leave what they perceived as dirty in its place.” Typically, in discussions of neoliberalism, neocolonialism, economic and political development have certain academic limitations. For instance, scholars are required to match their findings to official data points or ethnographical data. In addition, a lot of pieces are limited by language, and academic fields. But Sammy Beloji’s work is art from a person that grew up in and lives in the areas that experienced colonialism giving him a distinct experience that he expresses in a form that transcends language and “academic expertise.” It is not that scholars do not try to express what Beloji is trying to convey, but he does it in a way that is free of limiting academic factors.plain2023-05-10T12:25:19-07:00Jewsiewicki, Bogumil, and Allen F. Roberts. 2016. “Leaving Ruins: Explorations of Present Pasts by Sammy Baloji, Freddy Tsimba, and Steve Bandoma.” African Arts 49 (1): 6–25. https://search-ebscohost-com.proxy-bc.researchport.umd.edu/login.aspx?direct=true&AuthType=ip,url,uid&db=edsjsr&AN=edsjsr.24720706&site=eds-live&scope=site.2013Eden Gooldc32dc902c338ab3b48296f4b18566dab1b21abe1
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