West Africa has been home to some great kingdoms and empires. The earliest of these kingdoms belonged to the Nok people. They were farmers, potters and metalworkers who settled near the River ...

Today, Sy's firm Architerre is at the forefront of eco-friendly architecture in West Africa. Through projects ranging from homes and medical centres to mosque renovations in Timbuktu, Sy ...

During its reign, the kingdom of Oyo—which was in present-day southwestern Nigeria, parts of Benin and Togo—captured and enslaved an estimated 128,000 people from West Africa. Using geographic ...

Reproduced with permission In the course of the Cold War, architects, planners, and construction companies from socialist Eastern Europe collaborated with those in West Africa and the ... modern ...

‘In a way it seems like Accra and West Africa have been the perfect laboratory for initiating several projects that champion an innovative, affordable, and sustainable vision of the future through ...