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Tata Somba houses 🛖

Tata Somba houses 🛖

The glories of African architecture are often shamefully overlooked. Sadly, this is a symptom of a larger problem overall, where the rich diversity and culture of the African continent is largely glossed over in international media. Most reporting from the continent focuses only on issues that reinforce negative stereotypes – those of poverty, disease and war.

Porky Hefer took cues from the amorphous shape of bird nests to create The Nest at Sossus, an off-grid guesthouse on a wildlife reserve in Namibia.

Tata Somba houses 🛖

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The glories of African architecture are often shamefully overlooked. Sadly, this is a symptom of a larger problem overall, where the rich diversity and culture of the African continent is largely glossed over in international media. Most reporting from the continent focuses only on issues that reinforce negative stereotypes – those of poverty, disease and war.