Maisa Elamein

Maisa is a Sudanese architectural designer, researcher, and writer. She graduated from the University of Khartoum (UofK-FoA) and is currently an external collaborator at ArchDaily. Her work endeavours to interrogate the powers-that-be shaping the built environment.

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Built to Exclude: Colonial Violence and Urban Ecologies in Africa

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Colonial violence in African cities bled through the political dimensions into the spatial realm. It is infused into street grids, land tenure systems, drainage infrastructure and residential zones that continue to organize inequality and displacement today. Kinshasa, Khartoum, and Kampala each carry this afterlife in their urban morphology, at once historical artifacts and an active structure; shaping who has access to services, who occupies flood-prone land, and catalyzing a deepening climate instability that forces this apparatus into entirely new dimensions - including geological ones.

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