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    Compact House in Ghana, showing modern interiors and shades in a small but expansive-feeling space

    On a tight urban plot in Accra, an architect's striking home

    An architect’s home in Accra, Ghana, packs a punch on a tight urban plot; welcome to Compact House by Alice Asafu-Adjaye

    • portraits of 10 emerging west african architects

      The 10 emerging West African architects changing the world

      We found the most exciting emerging West African architects and spatial designers; here are the top ten studios from the region revolutionising the spatial design field

      By Ellie Stathaki Published 11 February 25

    • graphic on red background with the words in white font 'lesley lokko'

      Lesley Lokko reviews 2024's wins, shifts, tensions and opportunities for 2025

      Lesley Lokko, the British-Ghanaian architect, educator, curator, and founder and director of the African Futures Institute (AFI), has been an inspirational presence in architecture in 2024; which makes her perfectly placed to discuss the year, marking the 2025 Wallpaper* Design Awards

      By Lesley Lokko Published 15 January 25

    • limbo museum

      Limbo Museum: celebrating the architectural legacy of ‘unfinished business’

      We’re won over by Limbo Museum and the work of Limbo Accra, which is bringing new life to abandoned buildings across West Africa, and wins a Wallpaper* Design Award 2025

      By Shawn Adams Published 13 January 25

    • First look: Serwaa is a six-legged chair by Giles Tettey Nartey

      ‘The design sensibilities of West Africa are equally as valuable and important as those from Europe’ states British-Ghanaian designer and architect Giles Tettey Nartey

      By Shawn Adams Published 17 August 24

    •  James Barnor Self-portrait with a store assistant at the West African Drug Company, central Accra,c. 1952

      Celebrating James Barnor, the photographer who captured pre- and post-colonial Ghana

      Photographer James Barnor is in the spotlight at 95, his work the subject of a series of exhibitions and events in Ghana

      By Ugonna-Ora Owoh Published 24 July 24

    • dot.ateliers | Ogbojo

      Dot.ateliers | Ogbojo is an 'oasis' for writers and curators in Ghana

      Dot.ateliers | Ogbojo in Accra, Ghana was designed by emerging studio DeRoché Strohmayer for artist Amoako Boafo as a writer’s and curator’s residency space for the country's creatives

      By Ellie Stathaki Published 4 July 24

    • oil paintings of a Black figures holding Ghana Must Go bag, by artist Abdur Rahman Muhammad

      Artist Abdur Rahman Muhammad reframes the ‘Ghana Must Go’ bag to consider migration

      Abdur Rahman Muhammad casts the ‘Ghana Must Go’ bag in oils as a potent symbol of migration in ‘The Allegory of a Seeker’, on view at ADA gallery in Accra

      By Gameli Hamelo Published 24 May 24

    • Black and white photo of smiling couple, part of JK Bruce-Vanderpuije exhibition at Efie Gallery

      Unseen images by JK Bruce-Vanderpuije are a glimpse of life in 20th-century Ghana

      Late Ghanaian photographer JK Bruce-Vanderpuije’s works are on show at Efie Gallery in Dubai, offering a vision of a nation across the decades

      By Tianna Williams Published 19 January 24

    • Artworks from the book Voices: Ghana’s artists in their own words, from Manju Journal

      Ghana’s artists celebrated in new book by Manju Journal

      ‘Voices: Ghana’s artists in their own words’, from Manju Journal, celebrates 80 Ghanaian creatives

      By Ugonna-Ora Owoh Published 2 December 23

    • photographic portraits of woman face on, from the exhibition In and Out of Time at Gallery 1957, Accra, Ghana

      Wallpaper* contributing editor Ekow Eshun considers time, identity and cultural memory in Ghana

      ‘In and Out of Time’, held at Gallery 1957 in Accra, Ghana, and curated by Wallpaper* contributing editor Ekow Eshun, celebrates the concept of Sankofa with artists including Malala Andrialavidrazana, Shiraz Bayjoo and Godfried Donkor

    • rooftop at Surf Ghana Collective_by_Glenn DeRoché + Juergen Strohmayer

      Surf Ghana collective’s refreshed home makes waves

      Surf Ghana collective in Busua has a newly redesigned HQ, a home for surfers and their community, courtesy of architects Glenn DeRoché and Juergen Strohmayer

      By Ellie Stathaki Published 17 May 23

    • photographic work by Limbo Accra from Ghana

      Limbo Accra from Ghana is a spatial design studio with a context-specific twist

      Limbo Accra from Ghana is part of our series of profiles of architects, spatial designers and builders shaping West Africa's architectural future

      By Ellie Stathaki Published 31 December 22

    • Hive Earth wall sample

      Hive Earth leads the charge in contemporary building with earth

      Hive Earth from Ghana is part of our series of profiles of architects, spatial designers and builders shaping West Africa's architectural future

      By Ellie Stathaki Published 25 December 22

    • Eniwaye Oluwaseyi, A moment in time (family house), 2020

      ‘I see portraiture as a means to impart a social commentary’

      Self-taught Nigerian painter Eniwaye Oluwaseyi addresses #EndSARS in his debut show at ADA gallery in Accra

      By Pei-Ru Keh Last updated 25 October 22

    • Limbo Accra design studio in Ghana

      Limbo Accra nurtures discussion around urban space in Africa and beyond

      We hone in on the work of Limbo Accra, a pioneering, spatial design studio founded in Ghana that encourages a new wave of creative collaboration and co-production in Africa and its diaspora

      By Nana Ama Owusu-Ansah Last updated 10 October 22

    • Beige cusion chairs and couches, wall features and hanging ornamentals

      Santoku — Accra, Ghana

      By Jessica Klingelfuss Last updated 20 July 22

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