AFRICAN ARCHITECTURE
 
Traditional earthen roundhouses, Tamberma (Batammaliba) region of Togo and Benin: view and cutaway diagram and elevation, with traditional names for house parts

 


 
Houses of the Geriyama tribe, Kenya, E. coast of Africa, 20th century

 

 
 
 
 
 



 
Mud mosque, Kawara, Upper Volta (ex-Ivory Coast)

 

 
 
 
 
 

 
 
 



 

Decorated house facades, Zaria, Nigeria: painted facades and mud relief, including a bicycle
 


Mud wall and thatched roof house, Congo, Central Africa
 
 
 



 

Wood-ribbed house, Cameroon
 
 
 

 



 
Cave-house in shape of a human face, Bomarzo, Italy, 16th c.

 

 
 
 
 
 


Frank Toker in the Geriyama village of Chonyi
 
 
 

 

 


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