Making Africa: A Continent of Contemporary Design

“The future belongs to Africa, because it seems to have already happened everywhere.” Okwui Enwezor

‘Making Africa’ brings a new perspective to African design. For the first time, we have a book that focuses on creative achievements on the continent, without getting bogged down in the usual tropes of recycling, humanitarian design or traditional crafts. Instead, “Making Africa” showcases a new generation of designers who use their work as a tool for economic, political and social change, thereby creating a new future for the continent. Their creative output defies all definitions of genre, transcending classical fields such as furniture design, product design and typography to encompass digital media, art, photography, architecture and film.

A large part of the catalog is devoted to documenting the work of more than 120 protagonists of Africa’s new creative era, including Cyrus Kabiru, Cheick Diallo, Mário Macilau, Francis Kéré, David Adjaye, Kunlé Adeyemi, Bodys Isek Kingelez, Robin Rhode, Alaforu Sikoki. Selly Raby Kan and much more. The historical and theoretical background is explored in essays and discussions with Okwui Enwezor, Koyo Kouoh, Edgar Pieterse and Amelie Klein, among others. These are complemented by interviews in cities such as Cape Town, Johannesburg, Lagos, Lagos, Dakar, Nairobi and Cairo, as well as statements from around 70 experts from Africa gathered in think tanks. This is a book about the future of Africa and a new, more open way of understanding design; it is also a book about the 21st century. century, which means it is a book about what he can achieve.

• Soft Cover
• 24 x 33.5 cm, 1.69 kg
• 336 pages, about 350 images

Language: English