ABSTRACT
In their recent work, anthropologist Filip DeBoeck and photographer Marie-Françoise Plissart cogently argue that Kinshasa
is a city that not only also by its size but by its very shape shifting nature resists objectification, colonization, synthesis and summary. It constantly remains out of focus. It is a city difficult to tame, and impossible to capture in one master narrative. It eludes any order which one imposes upon its realities. Its constant energy and movement refuse to be frozen in static images, in linear text.
(DeBoeck and Plissart 2004, p. 8)