<p>This brilliant collaboration between an anthropologist and a photographer has resulted in not only a handsome volume that does justice to word and image alike, but also something far more important – a beautifully successful balance between thoughtful ethnography, thought-provoking and appropriate theory, and a visual essay that sensitively and imaginatively investigates its themes rather than just illustrating them. - Christopher Morton, Africa: The Journal of the International African Institute, vol. 88 no. 4, 2018, p. 891-892. https://muse.jhu.edu/article/715777</p>

<p>Filip de Boeck explores his deep knowledge of Congolese life and, together with Sammy Baloji, leads us through a major exploration of Congo’s colonial and postcolonial realities. As a major anthropological work, this book is built around specific insights that become allegories of social challenges. - Carvalho C. ILLUMINATING URBAN LIVES, African Studies Review. 2019;62(3):174-178. https://doi.org/10.1017/asr.2019.32</p>

<p>'Suturing the City' confirms de Boeck's place as a leading urban scholar, demonstrating how to combine rigorous academic theorizing with lively and accessible prose. Unlike many works that suffer from the compulsion to keep up with the newest theoretical fad and are little more than recycled jargon, this is a solid and much needed monograph that will undoubtedly stand the test of time. - Kacper Pobłocki, International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, 41: 375-376. https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-2427.12477</p>