Architects have the power to change the culture of how we build and how we think about resources. - Lesley Lokko

You have to find yourself. When you meet him again, you have to know who you are. He's finding out who he is.

It is an opportunity to talk to the rest of the world about Africa, and also to talk to Africa from here (Venice). The ability to be several things at once — traditional and modern, African and global, colonized and independent — is a strong thread running through the continent and the Diaspora. We’re used to having to think about resources, about switching on a light with no guarantee of electricity. We’re able to grapple with change. That capacity to overcome, to negotiate, to navigate ones’ surroundings is going to take center stage.

All futures are uncertain. We do our best to anticipate the future.