@brunfocused When I was in my penultimate year in school, my classmate a girl said my wife is still in JSS 2. At first I laughed it off. Over the years I realised she wasn't lying because when I compared my babe's age to that time in school, my babe would be in JSS1.
When Africans travel to Europe, the architecture tells you where you are.
Medieval cathedrals. Ottoman mosques. Haussmann boulevards. Buildings from the 13th century still standing, still defining cities.
When foreigners come to Africa, they visit zoos and the Egyptian pyramids.
The rest of our cities look like failed copies of somewhere else. Cement blocks. Zinc roofs. Buildings that could be anywhere.
We didn’t run out of materials. We didn’t run out of knowledge. We abandoned our architectural identity and replaced it with nothing that belongs to us.
That’s the conversation we’re refusing to have.
We're finally having the conversation about how most "modern" African construction materials and methods for everything including roads make no sense in our local context.
@JAMBHQ Well, I scored 49(agg) in PUTME, 245 in UTME and was not admitted in a federal uni. I took the blame for not preparing well for both exams. In my next sitting, I scored lower in UTME but met the UTME agg score and was given admission for a