A yellow bus with black decorative stripes and small painted figures on the side, driving on a busy street. The bus has a blue roof with a sign that reads 'For Sale.' Inside, there are two visible passengers—one wearing a blue cap and the other wearing a striped pink and purple shirt. In the background, two large posters of smiling people are mounted on a cement wall, and a person on a motorcycle drives past. Smoke rises from the bus's exhaust pipe.

© Oluwasegun Solomon Toluwani

Ongoing Book Project

moving parts: automobile aesthetics in postcolonial Africa

Moving Parts assembles the archives of literary, artistic, musical, and filmic texts that have formed around the public bus in order to offer the public bus as a key material through which to reorient current understandings of the global Black city.