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Decoration and meaning in African indigenous architecture

Cylindrical dwellings with conical thatched roofs are widely spread in Africa, grouped round cattle kraals in the south or scattered in farms in the east. Beautiful examples of mud architecture can be found in the West African savannah. The Kassena of Burkino Faso hand-mould their huts like pottery, linking them with curving walls. Such compounds [...]