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This project takes its cue from and celebrates Walter Rodney鈥檚 How Europe Underdeveloped Africa fifty years after its publication, while asking the question: How can we imagine a Post-(Under)Development World?

Walter Rodney鈥檚 well researched and trenchant historical, sociological, and socio-economic account was published in 1972 which makes this year, 2022, its 50 anniversary. The seminal book takes us through the institutionalisation of colonialism, the partitioning of peoples, the imposition of languages and destruction of knowledges and cultures, and how they had repercussions in the moment of 1971/72, and continue to have in the present, 50 years later. It offers the reader a historical expos茅 of the African continent before the Middle Passage, before the violent and inhumane machinations of the transatlantic slave enterprise while also taking us through the era of decolonial movements.

This project is a daring effort to analyze the status quo and imagine a world that doesn鈥檛 exist in the binary of 鈥渄evelopment鈥� and 鈥渦nderdevelopment鈥�. It manifests itself in multiple locales (Bandjoun, Nairobi, Berlin, Abidjan, and Johannesburg) as a series of research, exhibitions, performances, lectures, conversations and workshops around the myths of 鈥渄evelopment鈥� and 鈥渦nderdevelopment鈥� as well as imagining and crafting a Post-(Under)Development world.

We aim at gathering a network of activists, sonic agitators, scholars, artists and designers, political economists and practitioners to share knowledge across languages as well as sonority to imagine and shape together a post developmental age. A pluriverse of interdependent imaginations, visions and strategies, away from capitalist and industrial productivity and toward transformative conviviality.