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Sub-Saharan Africa

Mud-brick mosques the size of cathedrals. Stone enclosures with no mortar. Rock-hewn churches carved downward into the earth. Sub-Saharan African architecture has been systematically underrepresented in Western surveys — and it is some of the most inventive on the continent.

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