Computer Keys, mixed media sculpture
In the late 1950s a youth subculture called ‘Le Billisme’, inspired by Western movies, emerged in Leopoldville. Theatres were located in the black neighbourhoods of a city that was still experiencing severe racial discrimination. Buffalo Bill (from which the French expression ‘Le Billisme’ was derived) was an actor who became the idol of many young Congolese, and set the rules for male fashion especially, although young Congolese women could also be seen in the street, parading in jeans, with a scarf around the neck and sometimes even a lasso.