Plate 001 · Africa
Gando School
2001
001 · Gando, Burkina Faso
hopeGando School
A school of local clay and a floating roof, because a village asked one of its sons to come home and build.
Bobo / Mossi — Balafon xylophone suite
Corridor 04 · Hope
You already decided it would not stay broken.
What would you put back, stone by stone?
318 monuments in this corridor, ordered as the world is.
Rebuild a monument as hopeAfrica
Burkina Faso1
Egypt6
Plate 007 · Africa
Library of Alexandria
2002
007 · Alexandria, Egypt
hopeLibrary of Alexandria
A disc of a library aimed at the sea, because a burned library is a wound a city can still try to close.
After Akhenaten — Hymn to the Aten
Plate 008 · Africa
Nubian Museum
1997
008 · Aswan, Egypt
hopeNubian Museum
A museum of a culture that a dam drowned, holding what could be moved.
Baligh Hamdi — Umm Kulthum, Alf Leila Wa Leila
Plate 009 · Africa
Philae Temple
c. 280 BCE – 300 CE
009 · Aswan, Egypt
hopePhilae Temple
A temple moved block by block to an island that would not drown.
After Akhenaten — Hymn to the Aten
Plate 010 · Africa
Al-Azhar Mosque
972
010 · Cairo, Egypt
hopeAl-Azhar Mosque
A mosque that became a university, still teaching after a thousand years.
Tatyos Efendi — Sama'i Bayati
Plate 012 · Africa
Mosque of Ibn Tulun
879
012 · Cairo, Egypt
hopeMosque of Ibn Tulun
A mosque of brick and a spiral minaret, the oldest in Cairo still in its original form.
After Akhenaten — Hymn to the Aten
Plate 014 · Africa
Hatshepsut's Temple
c. 1470 BCE
014 · Deir el-Bahari, Egypt
hopeHatshepsut's Temple
A woman-king's temple of terraces, later defaced, still the most elegant of the west bank.
After Akhenaten — Hymn to the Aten
Ethiopia2
Plate 020 · Africa
Axum Obelisks
4th c.
020 · Axum, Ethiopia
hopeAxum Obelisks
Granite needles of a kingdom that minted coin and claimed the Ark.
Ethiopian secular mode — Tizita
Plate 022 · Africa
Rock-Hewn Churches of Lalibela
12th–13th c.
022 · Lalibela, Ethiopia
hopeRock-Hewn Churches of Lalibela
Churches cut down from living rock, a New Jerusalem in the highlands.
Ethiopian Orthodox — Tewahedo chant
Ghana1
Mali3
Plate 026 · Africa
Great Mosque of Djenné
1907 (present)
026 · Djenné, Mali
hopeGreat Mosque of Djenné
The largest mud-brick building on earth, replastered every year by a whole town.
Traditional Mandé / kora — Jarabi
Plate 027 · Africa
Great Mosque of Niono
1973
027 · Niono, Mali
hopeGreat Mosque of Niono
A mud mosque of a rice town, a 20th-century continuation of a medieval craft.
Sidiki Diabaté tradition — Kaira
Plate 028 · Africa
Timbuktu Sankore Madrasah
14th c.
028 · Timbuktu, Mali
hopeTimbuktu Sankore Madrasah
A university of mud and manuscripts, because a desert city was once a library.
Mandé kora tradition — Jarabi
Morocco3
Plate 029 · Africa
Ait Benhaddou
17th–20th c.
029 · Ait Benhaddou, Morocco
hopeAit Benhaddou
A ksar of rammed earth on a former caravan route, still a village and a film set.
Al-âla — Nuba ramal al-maya
Plate 031 · Africa
Chefchaouen Medina
15th–20th c.
031 · Chefchaouen, Morocco
hopeChefchaouen Medina
A mountain town painted blue, a refuge that became a colour.
Al-âla — Nuba ramal al-maya
Plate 034 · Africa
Koutoubia Mosque
1197
034 · Marrakesh, Morocco
hopeKoutoubia Mosque
A minaret that taught Seville and Rabat how to stand.
Al-âla — Nuba ramal al-maya
Senegal1
South Africa3
Plate 039 · Africa
Robben Island
17th c. / prison 1961–96
039 · Cape Town, South Africa
hopeRobben Island
A prison island that became a museum, because a prisoner became a president.
Township traditional — Rhythms of Resistance, toyi-toyi climate
Plate 041 · Africa
Zeitz MOCAA
2017
041 · Cape Town, South Africa
hopeZeitz MOCAA
A grain silo carved into a cathedral of contemporary African art.
Township traditional — Rhythms of Resistance, toyi-toyi climate
Plate 042 · Africa
Constitution Hill
2004
042 · Johannesburg, South Africa
hopeConstitution Hill
A court of a new constitution, built in and against an old prison.
Township traditional — Rhythms of Resistance, toyi-toyi climate
Sudan1
Tunisia1
Zimbabwe1
Plate 051 · Africa
Great Zimbabwe
11th–15th c.
051 · Masvingo, Zimbabwe
hopeGreat Zimbabwe
Dry-stone walls of a vanished capital, large enough to silence the people who said Africa had no cities.
Shona traditional — Mbira dzavadzimu, Nhemamusasa