Month: December 2015
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Sudano-Sahelian African Architecture
This is an architectural design of buildings commonly found below the Sahara from West African coastline all the way to the East African coast line. The earliest remains are dated 250BC and found in Mali, in the Djenné-Djenno area. The Great Mosque of Djenne, above, characterises the design. Use of mud bricks with adobe plaster,…
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Walls of Benin
These are one of the largest man made structures ever to be constructed by man before 1st century, in the same category as the Pyramids of Giza and the Great Wall of China. Its visible on google maps. The wall continues to be eaten up by expanding developments. The wall should get protections o that…