Margarida Waco

5.5706° S, 12.1976° E Sedimentary Myths chronicles a love letter to Cabinda. Nestled at the mouth of the Congo Basin and engulfed by the Atlantic, our soils and waters – two disobedient bodies keeping records of centuries of extractive violence – echo the broken stutters of a disputed territory. A territory home to the peoples and ancestry of Bakongo, to the wonders of Maiombe, and to the black gold – dug and stripped from our underground reservoirs; ascending, circulating, and dissolving in thin air.
Tracing the contours and continuum of a planetary system – thriving, mutating, and sickening upon our soils and waters – Sedimentary Myths yearns toward surfacing intertwining (hi)stories aggregated and written into our repositories in a single gesture, allowing us to project onto a future where we conjoin our voices to chant “Dipanda/Independência.”

Authorial collaborators
Aaiún Nin, André Taylor
Technical collaborators
Elizabeth Cox, Hawa Sanneh, J.B. , Russell E. L. Butler
With special thanks to
Suzana Mukende Filipe, Afonso Justino Waco, Ulrik Montnemery, Kaminsky Arkitektur. The 2022/23 RCA student cohort: Alicja Jaromirska, Hamza Gore, Hayden James, Linda Toven Naganathan, Mak Yuen Ching, Max Cooper-Clark, Tessnim Tolba, Timothy Webster, Elizabeth Cox, Ling Tiffany Lee, Lola Tartakover, Sofia Yanez Perteagudo, Zakiyyah Haffejee
With the additional support of
African Futures Institute