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You may laugh, but... a little school in Gando is, in the eyes of my community, maybe the same... [as] how they build a high rise in New York... very inspiring.

— Diébédo Francis Kéré Francis Kéré (2021)

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The problem... is how to explain drawings and engineering to people who are neither able to read or write.

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Things are growing fast in Burkina Faso. ...[P]eople come to city... to settle around structures. ...[I]n twenty years time this will be a city centre.

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I could achieve this even using... clay bricks.., seen as poor people['s] construction material.

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It is creating an identity. People know how the building was made, and they have been part of the building, but they also earn money... to feed their family.

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I realize... that education is like light... what you can see in the night.

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