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Liberation Landscapes in African Cities

Liberation can originate in everyday spaces like gardens and yards, not just in formal monuments. These spaces have been crucial for survival, nourishment, and fostering emancipatory imagination across histories of colonialism and dispossession.

The concept of 'Liberation Gardens,' explored by Wolff Architects, views gardens not just as planted areas but as dynamic spaces enabling survival, sustenance, and imaginative freedom. This perspective emphasizes the relationships between people and land, cultivation, knowledge, occupation, and autonomy.

These gardens can encompass cultural production and subsistence farming, fostering collective life even under oppressive conditions. Liberation, when understood through a spatial lens, involves the ability to inhabit spaces differently, leading towards a state of freedom.

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