Architects of Liberation: Modernism in Western Africa

A groundbreaking assessment of modern architecture in West African nations durin the decades following political independence

Beginning in the mid-1950s and continuing for several decades, the independence period was a prolific time of architectural production during which leaders of newly independent African nations sought to redefine themselves. Focusing on the West African nations of Senegal, Côte d’Ivoire, Ghana, Togo, Nigeria, Cameroon, and Benin, this landmark publication sheds light on shared issues and concerns as architects sought to adapt, adopt, or reinvent the idiom of modernism for their specific cultural, political, economic purposes.