All East Africa articles
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NewsPerforming arts centre opens in Africa’s largest refugee settlement
Hassell’s innovative arts centre opens in Uganda, offering training and community space for displaced youth
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News£12.26m committed to Commonwealth Heritage Forum’s heritage skills programme
Funding from Hamish Ogston Foundation to mark Charles III’s coronation
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FeaturesRemembering Doreen Adengo - an architect with a passion for African urbanism
Former colleagues of the leading Ugandan architect remember her generosity and her passionate belief in Africa’s ability to generate its own architectural discourse
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OpinionThe joy of designing and building appropriately
”Sustainability” is too vague a concept when it comes to the environmental crisis that we are facing. We need to think in terms of “appropriate design” and embrace new procurement models, writes Felix Holland
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OpinionWhat can we learn from designing for the sacred?
One small Ugandan practice reaches into the past to inform a contemporary monastic complex in the south of the country, writes Ben Flatman
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OpinionNavigating the legacies of colonialism in East Africa
The challenges of delivering new community facilities in rural Uganda are not limited to securing first-world funding
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OpinionAn architect’s guide to surviving the rule of Idi Amin
Ugandan practice Peatfield & Bodgener survived the rule of one of the world’s most brutal dictators. Ben Flatman finds out how