ArchDaily | Broadcasting Architecture Worldwide https://www.archdaily.com/ Sat, 9 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://assets.adsttc.com/doodles/archdaily-logo-feedly.svg 026CB6 https://www.archdaily.com/1034631/reclaiming-the-narrative-a-new-generation-of-museums-in-west-africa Sun, 05 Oct 2025 07:30:00 +0000 Mohieldin Gamal https://www.archdaily.com/1034631/reclaiming-the-narrative-a-new-generation-of-museums-in-west-africa As countries in Africa emerged from colonialism in the mid-twentieth century, many expressed their independent identities through architecture. This process continues several decades later, exemplified by several new museums in West Africa, recently completed or in planning. Although varying in purpose and form, they have some common goals: addressing the need for restitution of many artifacts taken during colonialism and mostly kept in European museums; and defining a museum with local identity as opposed to a non-contextual import.

]]> https://www.archdaily.com/999753/atelier-masomi-designs-the-ellen-johnson-sirleaf-presidential-center-for-women-and-development-in-liberia Thu, 20 Apr 2023 05:30:00 +0000 Nour Fakharany https://www.archdaily.com/999753/atelier-masomi-designs-the-ellen-johnson-sirleaf-presidential-center-for-women-and-development-in-liberia Atelier Masōmī has just revealed its design for The Ellen Johnson Sirleaf Presidential Center for Women and Development (EJS Center). President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf chose an all-female team to work on the project with lead architect Mariam Issoufou Kamara of Atelier Masōmī, exhibition's architect Sumayya Vally of Counterspace, and the local architect Liberian architect Karen Richards Barnes. The EJS Center, located in Liberia’s capital Monrovia, will provide digital access to former President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf’s personal and professional archives.

]]> https://www.archdaily.com/981733/mariam-issoufou-kamara-of-atelier-masomi-chosen-to-design-new-museum-and-art-center-in-west-senegal Wed, 11 May 2022 06:30:00 +0000 Dima Stouhi https://www.archdaily.com/981733/mariam-issoufou-kamara-of-atelier-masomi-chosen-to-design-new-museum-and-art-center-in-west-senegal The Josef and Anni Albers Foundation/Le Korsa has announced that Niger-born architect Mariam Issoufou Kamara, founder of award-winning practice atelier masōmī, has been selected to design Bët-bi, a new museum and center for culture and community in southwestern Senegal. Located near a series of megaliths in the vicinity of the historic city of Kaolack, Bët-bi is set to be a state-of-the-art museum that sits at the forefront of West Africa’s flourishing arts scene and wider cultural renaissance.

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