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[+API Soulchild+ @CHUCKXXV]

"This day will never come again and anyone who fails to eat and drink and taste and smell it will never have it offered to them again in all eternity. The sun will never shine as it does today."

Herman Hesse

[Shav Ngah ★ @shavnyuyngah]

Africa’s mud houses and thatched roofs have been spoken of in derogatory ways for decades. Sadly, even by Africans themselves. The same forms dismissed as primitive are what the rest of the world pays premium rates to sleep inside when they are refined and taken seriously.

This is Bisate Lodge, Ruhengeri, Rwanda. Twelve spherical thatched villas woven into the slopes of an eroded volcanic cone adjacent to Volcanoes National Park. The form is taken directly from the King’s Palace at Nyanza, a precolonial Rwandan royal structure. The thatching is done entirely by hand using traditional technique. The stone references the volcanic landscape surrounding the site. The entire complex runs off-grid.

This is not wildlife tourism. People come here specifically for what the building is and where it comes from. That is architectural tourism. And Africa is sitting on an enormous, largely untapped version of it.

Our vernacular forms are climatically intelligent, culturally rooted and visually extraordinary. The only thing standing between what we have and what the world will pay for is the decision to stop being embarrassed by our own heritage and start refining it.

Rwanda made that decision. The world showed up.

Nicholas Plewman Architects | Ruhengeri, Rwanda 🇷🇼 | 2018
📸 Crookes and Jackson

[NMY @1waynmy]

Whoever is the '10FOOT' graffiti artist, props to you, I’ve seen that graffiti in the most insane places all over London and out like some places got me thinking how do you even get up there?!

[Rumbidzai @SamanthaVazhure]

“Some time around midday on Saturday 9 May, a slow procession entered the Campo San Polo. At its head walked Chief Ngondonga of Murehwa, or rather his ceremonial figure, inhabited by the Zimbabwean multidisciplinary artist Shumba Maasai: robed, deliberate, accompanied by a small entourage and an array of audio equipment...”

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Fascinating read on @ShumbaBwoy at the Venice Bienniale 2026 🇿🇼❤️

[una ✨ @luna_aireirl]

Wow!

[ethéra @etheravibe]

the water’s glowing reflection.

[+API Soulchild+ @CHUCKXXV]

you are the camera, the scene

[𝑙𝑦𝑟𝑎 @naturehealyou]

when the sun makes the water glitter

[+API Soulchild+ @CHUCKXXV]

that's the only reason to make an album with music, is to decorate the skits

[+API Soulchild+ @CHUCKXXV]

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didn't catch it? listen to the recording
gr!

[Shav Ngah ★ @shavnyuyngah]

The Sociable Weaver bird builds a nest that houses 500 birds and regulates its own temperature.
An architect in Namibia studied it. Then built this.
The Nest Sossus is a double-skin thatch structure, reed on the inside and reed on the outside, insulating air gap in between. The desert does the rest.
No AC. Just biomimicry done right.

This is what happens when Africa stops borrowing solutions and starts reading its own landscape.

Architect: Porky Hefer Design
📍 Namib Desert, Namibia
📸 Katinka Bester

[+API Soulchild+ @CHUCKXXV]

have faith I

[+API Soulchild+ @CHUCKXXV]

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#positive #chill #vibrations

[Milito @Militojr177]

Selecting all images with traffic lights

[👍 @CLINT419]

what’s the point of being the only skyscraper in a land of ruins

[The Prince Machiavelli @terrymap1]

To my friends. I present to you the KwaTerry Village. Now you can spend Nights at KwaTerry. The ultimate Village experience is here. My offering for the Year🙏🏿. #KwaTerry #Village6 #Mugwazvangu #November28

[nich @nichxbt]

Unbelievable backpack to human ratio on this lad

[foxygen @foxypiano]

who wants a google drive of a lot of books on African art worth 5gb, featuring art theory, sculpture, photography, fabric, architecture, painting & film? personally curated by me.

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New Bop Still OUT NOW

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New Bop Still OUT NOW

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