Located in the old part of Zaria, known as Birnin Zazzau (walled city of Zaria) or Zaria City, the gate (kofar gida) to the Emir's palace stands out as a colorful representation of the Hausa people…

This building and its annexes house the Edo State High Court, as well as the offices of the state judiciary. Several parts of the facade bear relief work by Ben Osawe (1931-2007). His three-story…

The Public Works Department (PWD) played a major role in early and later Anglophone colonial architecture and utilities. Although operative in the Ghana's coastal area as early as 1850, the PWD's…

From Refuge to Elite Social Center

Once the site of the Aban, a stone royal fortress/museum built in the European mode, its destruction gave rise to a British colonial fortress, a forceful sign of occupation. Today it stands as…

Throughout the 19th century, the five-acre Adum Royal Palace Complex was the center of an Empire that held its own against British onslaughts. Its death knell occurred in the 1890s, and the 20th…

This busy center city thoroughfare has an ancient history that periodically resurrects when palace chiefs process through the roundabout.

The present dynasty built its palace on an earlier dynasty's cemetery, incorporating the ancestors who owned the land.