Waza, which means “imagine” in Swahili, is an art center founded in 2010 by a group of artists and curators based in Lubumbashi, D.R. Congo. Waza develops exhibitions, publications, and other cultural productions to foster grassroots experimental artistic practices and promote alternative ways of sharing knowledge and raising consciousness. In its physical space, Waza hosts art collectives, social entrepreneurs, and individual artists from a wide range of disciplines, including visual arts, comics, music, writing, and dance. It also runs a library, a sound studio, and a web radio. Its recent projects explore the restitution of African cultural heritage, the commons, art education, emancipation from the paternalistic organization of labor, and alternative uses of cyberspace in the Global South. Waza’s program alternates research in an experimental laboratory with mediation targeting local communities