Francis Kere: Africa’s sustainable architect conquering new continents

The bricks are local, the open-air ventilation is abundant, and a single towering baobab unites it all: architect Francis Kere’s new building in Dakar is simultaneously sustainable and distinctly African. A dual national of Burkina Faso and Germany, Kere is the only African to have won the Pritzker Prize (2022), architecture’s most prestigious award