Nzinga B. M.

Origins: Cameroon + Senegal Born: Mozambique Identity: African Occupation/Passion: Architecture Interests: Innovation, design, cinema

[Mr Meyz @MrMeyz]

@shavnyuy That’s my big sister. So proud of her 🫶🏿

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More photos from her incredible works

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Africa’s most honest architecture is increasingly coming from its women.

Nzinga B. Mboup grew up between Mozambique, Cameroon, South Africa and Senegal. She saw what colonial urbanism did to African cities. Then she decided to build differently.

Her practice Worofila works with compressed earth bricks, typha plant fiber, and self-supporting earthen vaults, materials that have kept people cool in West Africa for centuries. In Dakar, where concrete dominates because it’s cheap and politically convenient, that is a radical act.

She puts it plainly: “Why did we ever stop building with earth?”

Nobody has a good answer.

Nzinga B. Mboup | Worofila | Dakar, Senegal 🇸🇳

[Alice Clancy @clancy_alice]

Well done Doudou, Nzinga and Chérif!!!

[Philip Oldfield @SustainableTall]

This is a fantastic resource on straw and biomaterial building

With construction details, deconstruction steps, fire and thermal performance, and much more.

By the Royal Danish Academy https://t.co/BF2x74IX5z

[Sir David Adjaye @dadjaye]

Cheikh N’gom, the first Senegalese architect to start a firm, designed projects throughout Dakar which helped define its architectural language. His notable works include the Grand Medina (1982), the Immeuble Faycal (1984), and the UCAD Faculty of Law & Political Science.

[Mariam Issoufou Architects @m_i_architects]

To mark International Women's Day, @dezeen asked current and former Dezeen Awards judges (including @mariamkamr) to nominate a woman in architecture and design who should have greater recognition.

https://t.co/G9P7DhO2Xe

[Afterall Research Centre @AfterallJournal]

READ: Conversation between Senegalese architects Carole Diop @CaroleDiop & Nzinga Mboup @nzingabm - On the Importance of Defining and Conserving Urban and Architectural Heritage in Dakar 🏫 https://t.co/GbXIRJsQvs Commissioned in collaboration with RAW Material Company

[Nzinga B. M. @nzingabm]

@_LarryCarlos the one made out of recycled waste is my fave

[Nzinga B. M. @nzingabm]

Thanks to #theirrepressibles for taking me on an magical musical journey last night at the village underground!

[Nzinga B. M. @nzingabm]

@_LarryCarlos Amazing! Welcome to the geek side :p

[Lawrence Carlos @_lawrencecarlos]

BBC Radio 6 Music - The Afrobeat Revolutionary, Episode 1 http://t.co/rgBLmsshox @nzingabm

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petiaivanoff's photo http://t.co/jlMk9HtZz3

#chestitababamarta #bulgariantradition

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@_LarryCarlos http://t.co/0mmHvJx6y1

[Nzinga B. M. @nzingabm]

Why do @alfonsocuaron and Alejandro Gonzalez Innaritu keep making such compelling human stories that truly touch one's soul!?

[Nzinga B. M. @nzingabm]

Just time-travelled! Left Amsterdam at 8:40 landed in London at 8:30. 10 precious minutes added to my life :p

[Nzinga B. M. @nzingabm]

Getting some fascinating insight on skinhead subculture (minus political ideologies) after watching "This is England" #movies

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Tatted London is revealing itself as the sun comes out! #tattoo #summer #London