• Restore, destroy or leave to rot? Battle lines drawn over west Africa’s architectural heritage

    Restore, destroy or leave to rot? Battle lines drawn over west Africa’s architectural heritage
    Uncompleted or abandoned buildings are a regular feature of the landscape. Now calls for restorations are increasingBeneath mango trees in the lush garden of the Palais de Lomé, an oceanside estate in the Togolese capital, dozens of students from the African School of Architecture and Urban Planning (EAMAU) were taking sessions on archiving.Established in 1905, the palace housed German, French and British colonial governors in succession and then the Togolese presidency before falling int

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