This opinion piece was originally published by Wits University under the same title, along with the featured images, on 18 May 2023. The 18th international architectural exhibition in Venice showcases urban spaces in the Global South - with African cities front and centre. La Biennale Architettura runs from 20 May to 26 November2023. You Will Find Your People Here is part of exhibition curator Lesley Lokko’s special project, Gender and Geography. This special project features the book by sociologist Caroline Wanjiku Kihato, Migrant Women of Johannesburg: Everyday Life in an in-between City, published by Wits Press. A migrant to Johannesburg herself, Kihato was previously in Urban Planning in the School of Architecture and Planning at Wits and is now associated with the University’s African Centre for Migration & Society (ACMS). ‘A new language to speak about mobility and African cities’ The Mellon Foundation Mobility, temporality, and Africa’s future politics project at Wits provided support for the exhibition, as did the ACMS, and the Migration Governance Lab at Wits and Oxford University. Dr Kabiri Bule, a postdoctoral Research Associate at ACMS, provided technical support. The project is aligned to the general goal of Professor Loren B. Landau’s SARChI Research Chair in Mobility and the Politics of Difference in the ACMS. “What […]