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A rendering of Akon City, full of undulating glass buildings

The Title is a Mad-Lib

Akon finalizes deal to build a cryptocurrency city in Senegal

January 30, 2020

Image of African children playing soccer in front of brick school with a sign that says Mwabwindo

It Takes a Village

Selldorf Architects completes new a Zambian school for the 14+ Foundation

October 10, 2019

A man sitting on a rocket above Earth, as part of a collection given to the MoMA

Permanent Collections

Museum of Modern Art receives massive gift of African contemporary artwork

August 2, 2019

Photo of a cantilevering concrete hotel

Fly Like an Eagle

Tunisia’s high-flying Brutalist hotel is safe after demolition scare

March 13, 2019

Ikiré Jones Our Africa 2081 A.D., 2014. Idumota Market, Lagos 2081 A.D.

Continental Culture

Austin’s Blanton Museum surveys the state of African design

September 13, 2018

rendering of nile tower

A Land for Luxury

Zaha Hadid’s Nile Tower, the tallest building in Africa, will rise in Cairo

September 4, 2018

The visionary paper cities of artist Bodys Isek Kingelez come to life at the MoMA

July 6, 2018

Urban planners are irresponsibly designing risky mega-developments across Africa

July 24, 2017

Aranda/Lasch Chipakata Children Academy

Aranda/Lasch wins competition to design furniture for 14+ Foundation’s Chipakata Children’s Academy in Zambia, Africa

October 11, 2016

EDI chairman and principal Victor Mirontschuk briefly recounts his work in Africa

May 31, 2016

(Courtesy Western Sahara Pavilion)

Venice welcomes its first “nation in exile” whose pavilion highlights a little-known refugee crisis

May 26, 2016

On View> Architecture of Independence: African Modernism at the Graham Foundation

March 3, 2016