This video projection brings together a selection of moving-image fragments from TroTro Life, an ongoing visual archive centred on trotro minibuses in Ghana. TroTros – informal, collectively navigated transport vehicles – operate as social infrastructures: mobile classrooms, marketplaces, message boards, sound systems, and commons in motion. Hand-painted slogans, improvised modifications, shared rhythms, and negotiated routes transform each vehicle into a living interface shaped by collective use rather than top-down design.

Within By The Mango Belt & Tamarind Road, the TroTro becomes a metaphor in its original Greek sense: metaphorá – to carry across, to transport. Here, metaphor is not decorative language but a vehicle itself: a container of meanings, beliefs, humour, politics, and cosmotechnical knowledge moving through the city. These videos trace how values, ethics, and worldviews circulate materially – painted onto metal, voiced through music, exchanged in glances and gestures – while in transit.

Projected within CANK, the work foregrounds informal mobility systems as sites of technological intelligence and cultural protocol. TroTros reveal how infrastructures in the Mango Belt are continuously rewritten through use, care, improvisation, and relational trust. Rather than fixed routes or optimised flows, they propose a technology of becoming-with: transport as a shared negotiation, metaphor as a moving container, and mobility as a form of collective world-making.