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ART & CULTURE
Afrikan Arts
Preserve Traditional
African Style Architecture
By Shibero Akatsa
ention that you people silently imagine your dark suburb in Africa.
live in a mud cold hut, tucked away somewhere
house to African in the African slums or rural envi- Today, many Africans are living in
Murbanites, and you rons. Until they find out that this big cities in houses or apartments
will get incredulous looks that home, you have built out of earth made of stone or cement. In more
can be interpreted to mean ‘how and twigs using African traditional remote areas of Africa, people live
archaic’ or ‘you poor thing’ as architecture, lies in an affluent in homes made of thatch and dried
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