Sandra Mujinga’s Shadowy Figures Hit the International Spotlight

About a decade ago, when Sandra Mujinga visited Kinshasa, the capital of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, she relished her time people watching, as travelers are wont to do. But Mujinga was not exactly a foreigner—she was born in Goma, another Congolese city, and had returned to the country multiple times since leaving it as a child—and so her version of people watching entailed observing not just how locals acted but how they dressed.“I felt like there was this innate, un