African traditional architecture

Rebuilding African
Indigenous Architecture

We are a community that is passionate about preserving, celebrating and rebuilding Indigenous African Architecture. We do this by creating a community that creates opportunities for Indigenous communities to network through travel and exchange ideas about their Indigenous architecture. We have also created an open forum to build a community where people can openly chat about different topics that are relevant to Indigenous African architecture. In addition to this, we understand how valuable it is to invest in research, digitization of our indigenous knowledge and the promotion of knowledge sharing. That’s why we are investing in 3 key resource hubs.

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Our Work

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African Achitecture Database

We are building a comprehensive database of Indigenous African architecture from pre-colonial Africa to date. Our goal is to preserve the knowledge, and inspire future generations to live sustainably. Anyone can upload photos and contribute towards the database.

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Home Design Inspirations for new home owners

If you desire to start building your dream home based on the foundation of our ancestors knowledge, but don’t know where to start. We hope the design inspirations here will help you get started. We have a combination of paid and free resources based on the contributions of our experts.

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African Builders, Architects & Designers Database

This is a database of Indigenous African builders, designers and architects who are passionate about helping the community to build their homes indigenously. Our goal is to connect prospective home owners to African professionals with a keen focus of preserving, and educating about indigenous African Architecture.

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How To Contribute To Our African Architecture Database

Take a picture of the African Indigenous. Before uploading it, please share a brief description of Architecture, include the country, the tribe or community of origin and any additional information like the materials used and a step by step guide on how to build the home.

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Join Our YouTube Community

We create educational content geared towards changing the narrative on African Indigenous Architecture. Our goal is to inspire a new perspective in the community to build cultural pride.

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