Table of Contents:
  • Essays and interviews. A reinvented vocabulary: decoding the many dimensions of African design / interview with Okwui Enwezor
  • What design can and should be doing in the 21st century: ten proposals / Amelie Klein
  • A maker and hacker mentality / interview with Mugendi M'Rithaa
  • Never despair, your miracle is around the corner: the multiple forms of designing the social / Koyo Kouch
  • Profile picture: digital design from Africa / Avinash Rajagopal and Vera Sacchetti
  • Informality as a starting point / interview with Edgar Pieterse
  • Visual Africa: a complete picture / Azu Nwagbogu
  • Fashioning the future / Odessa Legemah
  • Prologue
  • What do you think of the title of the exhibition Making Africa? What does 'making' mean to you?
  • I and we
  • What role does Africa play in your identity? Why is it difficult to speak about identity in Africa?
  • Space and object
  • Let's talk about the city
  • What does it mean to work in the creative field in Africa? Does Africa inform your work? In what way? What do you consider important for your work?
  • Origin and future
  • Is Africa changing?
  • What does Africa need for the future?