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Venice Architectural Biennale gives overdue voice to long-silenced Africa

Hindustan Times 22 May 2023
Scottish-Ghanaian architect Lesley Lokko is giving a platform to voices that have long been silenced at this year’s Venice Architecture Biennale, which opens Saturday, the first ever curated by an African, featuring a preponderance of work by Africans and the African diaspora.
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Venice Biennale 2023 review – an important challenge to western architectural tradition

The Observer 21 May 2023
The architecture and architects celebrated by the biennale have also been predominantly European, with some contributions from Asia and the Americas ... There’s a rich and intriguing room containing the work of the Catalan architects Flores and Prats, whose Sala Beckett theatre in Barcelona is a virtuoso remodelling of an old building.
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AP News Summary at 3:14 a.m. EDT

Ellensburg Daily Record 20 May 2023
Venice Architectural Biennale gives overdue voice to long-silenced Africa. VENICE, Italy (AP) — Scottish-Ghanaian architect Lesley Lokko is giving voices that have long been silenced a platform at this year’s Venice Architecture Biennale ... them from Africa or the African diaspora.
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AP News Summary at 3:41 a.m. EDT

The Lufkin News 20 May 2023
Venice Architectural Biennale gives overdue voice to long-silenced Africa. VENICE, Italy (AP) — Scottish-Ghanaian architect Lesley Lokko is giving voices that have long been silenced a platform at this year’s Venice Architecture Biennale ... them from Africa or the African diaspora.
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AP News Summary at 3:55 a.m. EDT

Athens Daily Review 20 May 2023
Venice Architectural Biennale gives overdue voice to long-silenced Africa. VENICE, Italy (AP) — Scottish-Ghanaian architect Lesley Lokko is giving voices that have long been silenced a platform at this year’s Venice Architecture Biennale ... them from Africa or the African diaspora.
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AP News Summary at 3:59 a.m. EDT

The Galveston Daily News 20 May 2023
Venice Architectural Biennale gives overdue voice to long-silenced Africa. VENICE, Italy (AP) — Scottish-Ghanaian architect Lesley Lokko is giving voices that have long been silenced a platform at this year’s Venice Architecture Biennale ... them from Africa or the African diaspora.
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AP News Summary at 3:53 a.m. EDT

Times-Tribune 20 May 2023
Venice Architectural Biennale gives overdue voice to long-silenced Africa. VENICE, Italy (AP) — Scottish-Ghanaian architect Lesley Lokko is giving voices that have long been silenced a platform at this year’s Venice Architecture Biennale ... them from Africa or the African diaspora.
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AP News Summary at 3:56 a.m. EDT

Weatherford Democrat 20 May 2023
Venice Architectural Biennale gives overdue voice to long-silenced Africa. VENICE, Italy (AP) — Scottish-Ghanaian architect Lesley Lokko is giving voices that have long been silenced a platform at this year’s Venice Architecture Biennale ... them from Africa or the African diaspora.
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The toxic landscape of colonialism: Venice’s Architecture Biennale spotlights Africa

The Observer 19 May 2023
a reproduction of a 17th-century map of the coasts of Africa and Brazil, a slave-trading ship’s logbook, and a piece of woven raffia from The Kingdom of Kongo ... It features a majority of exhibitors from Africa, or the diaspora, a 50-50 gender balance, and an average age of 43 – positively adolescent in the architectural profession.
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Venice architecture biennale: how pioneering Ghanaian architects reckoned with tropical modernism

The Conversation 17 May 2023
Kuukuwa Manful , CC BY-NC-ND As curator of the 2023 Venice architecture biennale , the Ghanaian-Scottish architect, Lesley Lokko , has chosen to highlight the African continent as “the laboratory of the future” ... Architecture and Power in West Africa ... And they spoke of the pride they felt at being African architects.
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Venice Biennale to Spotlight Architects from Africa and the African Diaspora

Market Watch 16 May 2023
This year, for the first time, the event will showcase sustainable designs from architects from Africa and the African diaspora ... This year’s Biennale, which runs through November, is curated by Ghanaian-Scottish architect, professor and novelist Lesley Lokko, who is also the founder of the African Futures Institute, established in Accra, Ghana.
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A scrum in building form: Limerick hopes to cash in on rugby supremacy with new attraction

The Observer 14 May 2023
Martin Johnson and Francois Pienaar, who respectively led England and South Africa to World Cup glory, joined other rugby legends for the official opening. The architect, Níall McLaughlin, fused four derelict buildings into a tower of ... South Africa’s Faf de Klerk shows how to pass.
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CapeNature sees surge in visitor numbers

Independent online (SA) 12 May 2023
The entity has boasts numerous accolades and awards for its tourism offerings with the prestigious Cape Institute for Architects Award for Architecture and the Reignite Africa Award WTM Africa for the #NatureStaycation marketing campaign finalist awards being the most recent wins for the group.
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Mauritania votes in key polls ahead of presidential contest

The New Arab 11 May 2023
"El Insaf will secure a majority in all elections and strengthen Ghazouani's chances of being re-elected in 2024," said Adam Hilelly, an analyst with 14 North Strategies, a US consultancy specialising in Africa. Ghazouani, 66, is a general considered one of the main architects of ...
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Meet Tosin Oshinowo, the woman who designed adidas’s new store in Nigeria

Independent online (SA) 09 May 2023
To expand its presence in Africa, the German fashion company has launched its new flagship store in Lagos, Nigeria. According to the “Guardian Nigeria”, the brand partnered with BrandCo to launch the store that is said to be the biggest in West Africa.

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