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The Agostinho Neto Mausoleum: A towering structure for a towering man
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…
Old Fourah Bay College Building: Mirroring the evolution of Freetown
The building that produced West Africa's Victorian-era graduates is being lost to Nature
Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Nigeria: Architectural Complexities in a Tropical Climate
The University took possession of an estimated 13,000 acres of land north of the city center on Ibadan road, although less than half of the land is in active use. Renamed Obafemi Awolowo University…
Nejjarine Fountain and Museum: From Lodging House to Tourist Attraction
The Fez medina's Nejjarine Museum of Wooden Arts and Crafts has not always been a museum. It was built in 1711 as a fondouk (fondak), a lodging house for travelers that included a courtyard where…
Manhyia Royal Palace: Seat of the Post-19th Century Asante Monarchs
Current Asante narrative stresses that the Asante insisted on paying the British for the new royal palace in 1925, so their ruler need not be beholden to the colonialists. British records show their…
Ring Road, Benin City, Nigeria: Oba Erediauwa Square: Busy Central Roundabout, Former Palace Forecourt
This busy center city thoroughfare has an ancient history that periodically resurrects when palace chiefs process through the roundabout.
Benin Museum: Art Display, Archaeological Site, Palace Grounds
Benin City's National Museum was, in 1944, the second museum to be established in the country, under the auspices of Oba Akenzua II. He first hosted a collection of antiquities in the palace, some of…