West African Architecture

Afi Ekong - founder of the first private art gallery in Nigeria, The Bronze Gallery.

A portable, energy-efficient home that was originally built for a competition may be available on the market soon in Africa.

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Bathroom design by Utkan Gunerkan

i feel like we don’t talk about things like this enough

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A portrait of a woodabe woman. Niger. ©Mariam S. Abdullah

Children’s book started years ago to promote nsibidi, finally finished. Animal discovery in the wild in Igbo. https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07ZG67B5S

An inventor from Togo in West Africa, Kodjo Afate Gnikou, has made a 3D printer using parts from broken scanners, computers, printers and other e-waste. The fully functional printer cost $100, a fraction of the cost of others currently on the market, and saves environmentally damaging waste from reaching landfill sites. Read more and support the project here.

Some ‘upscale’ traditional architectural styles (all earth) of old from the Lower Guinea area of western Africa. Captions added.

Public Spaces Development Programme, in the Republic of Tatarstan, a programme that, to date, has improved 328 public spaces all over Tatarstan