Through complex interactions over a period of seven centuries, South Sotho populations have remained resilient in maintaining and asserting cultural affiliation and identity within a changing physical, social, and political environment. The history…

Innovative and culturally significant approaches to civic planning among Sotho-speaking peoples can be traced back to the 14th-16th centuries when the predecessors of South Sotho-speakers first arrived in the present-day Republic of South Africa and…

Near Abomey’s city center is Place Goho, a small park where a statue of Akhosu (King) Behanzin (r. 1889–1894) stands behind a fountain and rectangular pool. This massive monument depicts a muscular figure, his hand outstretched as if to indicate…

Maboneng, its name a Sotho word meaning “place of light,” has been rapidly growing at about 3 times the rate of South Africa's standard of about +6% annually. Located in Johannesburg's Central Business District (CBD), the district was cut…

The Cine Atlântico was the vision of Portuguese architects operating in the late colonial period. Uncertain of Angola's future as a result of independence movements that began to grow in the 1950s, the leadership of Portugal decided to attempt to…

The Agostinho Neto Mausoleum is an obelisk-like concrete structure towering above the city of Luanda. It occupies the center of the Agostinho Neto Cultural Center, which takes up 4,633 square miles of Luanda, and serves as Neto's final resting…