And yet the north has the highest rate of multidimensional poverty, insecurity, unemployment, out of school children in Nigeria. And many more bad things.
“Proper elites” my foot. The north has an abundance of greedy and cruel rich families, not elites.
Ghana is not experimenting with rammed earth. Ghana is demonstrating mastery of it.
The Shippon Offices. Cantonments, Accra, Ghana. Adjaye Associates’ own global headquarters. Designed by David Adjaye. Completed 2026.
The entire facade is rammed earth fins; deep, rhythmically spaced, locally sourced. They shade the interior from
Accra’s tropical sun while framing precise views of the city. A 26-metre cantilever lifts the primary office floors off the ground entirely, preserving the ground plane as a shaded social pergola for the neighbourhood.
1,300 m² of column-free workspace. A creche for staff families. A rooftop kitchen. Rammed earth walls that regulate humidity and temperature without mechanical systems.
David Adjaye chose rammed earth for his own firm’s home. Not for optics. Because it performs.
This is what it looks like when an African architect builds African soil into a Grade-A global workplace and dares the world to call it primitive
Adulting has humbled me a lot . I finally understand why so many adults stop posting on social media or even deactivate their accounts. Life feels so much peaceful when everything isn't on display. Like they say , out of sight, out of mind.. There's something really comforting about people not knowing every detail of your life.
Our parents don't know how much we stay in bed thinking about how we will return their hard work and sacrifices they made. Hope it all goes well for us.