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Historic Kinshasa market given a makeover
The Guardian Weekly
|January 23, 2026
Selling vegetables was Dieudonné Bakarani’s first job.
He had a little stall at Kinshasa Central Market. Decades later, the 57-year-old entrepreneur is redeveloping the historic marketplace that gave him his start in business to be an award-winning city landmark.Bakarani hopes to see the market, known as Zando, flourish again and reopen next month after a five-year hiatus. The design has already been recognised internationally; in December, the architects won a Holcim Foundation award for sustainable design.
“We have built a market with local people, especially our mothers and sisters, in mind,” Bakarani said. “We have kept the concept of the old one but have enlarged it, and it is more functional.”
Inaugurated in January 1944 under Belgian colonial rule, Zando was demolished and rebuilt in 1968, with space for 3,500 traders. When it closed in January 2021, it was attracting a million shoppers a day and there were issues around safety and sanitation and waste disposal.
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