OPENING Monday, March 25, 6pm
When most countries in Central and Sub-Saharan Africa gained their independence in the late 1950s and 1960s, experimental and futuristic architecture became a principal means by which the young nations expressed their national identities. At the same time, this architecture also shows the difficulties, contradictions and dilemmas that the countries experienced in their independence process. The exhibition, researched and curated by architect and author Manuel Herz, looks at these questions as it documents more than 80 buildings in Ghana, Senegal, Côte d’Ivoire, Kenya and Zambia. The Ardhi University provided 15 extra panels documenting the most important buildings from that period in Dar es Salaam.
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