Edited by Manuel Herz, Ingrid Schroder, Hans Focketyn & Julia Jamrozik

Back in print, the most comprehensive survey of modern architecture in Africa to date. When African Modernism was first published in 2015, it was showered with international praise and has been sought after ever since it went out of print in 2018. Over the course of the 1950s and 1960s, most African countries gained independence from their respective colonial powers. Architecture became one of the principal means by which the newly formed states expressed their national identity. African Modernism: The Architecture of Independence investigates the close relationship between architecture and nation-building in Ghana, Senegal, Cote d'Ivoire, Kenya, and Zambia. It features 100 buildings with brief descriptive texts, images, site plans, selected floor plans and sections. The vast majority of images were taken by Iwan Baan and Alexia Webster especially for the book's first edition, documenting the buildings in their present state. Each country is portrayed through an introductory text and a timeline of historic events.