Etta Madete co-write an article with Barcelona-born architect Nerea Amoros Elorduy for the December 2020 / January 2021 issue of The Architectural Review (AR). AR is a prestigious global architectural magazine that has been in publication since 1896.
By Etta Madete — Can the future of Africa’s cities be growing on trees? When I finished architecture school, I was excited to put into practice my training in sustainable architecture. But the reality of Nairobi, Kenya, was a wake up call. The over commercialisation of the industry directly contradicted the abject poverty, the two million …
BY Carl Manlan and Etta Madete — Across Africa, even in cities with relatively modern infrastructure, many shoppers prefer the informal markets. In our case, both our mothers preferred the fresh produce sold at informal markets by women from the rural areas. Thus, in cities as far apart as Nairobi and Abidjan, our mothers took …
BY: Etta Madete — Roads are one of the world’s biggest killers, but they do not have to be. If you are an average reader, it might take you about four minutes to get to the bottom of this article. In that time, 10 people – 10 people who woke up this morning, just like …
BY: ETTA MADETE Do you remember how much time you used to spend in traffic before Covid-19? I do. It was two hours in traffic. Every single day. And that was on a good day. Americans spend more than 100 hours in traffic each year at an annual cost of $1 400 a person, according to the …