I think it’s time to start looking at these buildings as African architecture and no longer putting these tags of Modern architecture from colonial times. Of course, you will never take that history away, but they’ve now belonged to the people that are living in them for much longer than they did during colonial times and so they should be seen as African architecture.

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[archive.pinupmagazine.org "Interview: Artist Ângela Ferreira Examines Modern Architecture and Colonialism" in Pin-Up (magazine) Kojo Abudu, (August 2021)

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