The exercise of visualizing modernity in cities often leads one to picture skyscrapers, grandiose bridges, and urban housing developments with tall glass windows. These have become the urban living infrastructures we know to be modern — those we crave, value, and race to build. Yet, there is an increasing cluster of African architects, designers, and engineers who are contesting these images of modernity as being neither desirable nor fit for public spaces in our African citi

The 2023 Global Femicide Report, released jointly by UN Women and the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, recorded a staggering 51,100 intentional killings of women and girls across the world that year. These killings were found to not only be overwhelmingly carried out by intimate partners or close family relatives but also to majoritarily occur in no other place than the victim’s home . Being confronted with the deep intimacy of both the home as a place of death and c