The WiSER Podcast | Caio Simoes De Araujo | Bridging the Bay: Maputo-Katembe

In this episode, Caio Simões de Araújo discusses the politics of infrastructure in Southern Africa, taking as an entry point the Maputo-Katembe bridge, inaugurated in 2018. Araújo argues that the bridge is part of a renewed public investment in infrastructure enabled by Chinese cooperation in Africa. Yet, rather than a straightforward road into the future, the bridge is embedded in a highly complex set of temporal landscapes  - ones that warrant close and careful analysis.  

Caio Simoes De Araujo is a post-doctoral researcher in the Regions2050 programme at WiSER. He is the editor of A Luta Continua, 40 anos depois: Histórias Entrelaçadas da África Austral (Alcance, 2017). Related to this podcast is a short experimental film "The bridge", which is about the inauguration of the bridge back in 2018. The film is included in the online exhibition, Archive of Forgetfulness: https://archiveofforgetfulness.com