Abstract
Cities like Dar es Salaam are crucibles for a heterogeneous crowd of unformed potential where urban futures can arrive from any quarter, bridge, or beach. Rending visible the affordances of a place known as Minazini Beach, this essay provisionally “gathers” a set of actions and qualities of the beach that elucidates the eternal return of the tide and the potentialities its movements provide. Thinking with the East African mkoko—mangrove—indigenous to the East African littoral, suggests an errant ethnography intertwined with the moon and tide that encourages a Swahili rhizome of thinking difference, multiplicity, comparison, and relation. Understanding the beach as foundational of life and the economic activities that makes up life, this essay argues that the future of the
