Late last year a new museum opened its doors in Lagos, Nigeria, called The John Randle Centre for Yoruba Culture and History. It is among a new generation of African cultural institutions 鈥� including the Bet Bi museum in Senegal, by Mariam Kamara, and the听Museum of West African Art in Benin City by Adjaye Associates 鈥� which in different ways attempts to reimagine both the form and format of the contemporary museum from an African perspective.听
This week , who lead the design of the John Randle Centre. Oduwole is a Nigerian architect and the Principal Architect at SI.SA, a Lagos-based firm he founded in 2015. He earned his architecture degree from the University of Nottingham and gained experience at Hopkins & Partners, Benoy, and Sheppard Robson. Upon returning to Nigeria, he worked at Shelter Design Partnership and later became a partner at Brown inQ before establishing SI.SA.
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