by StanleyFreeman | Mar 1, 2024 | Global African History, People
Offiong Ekanem Ejindu is a Nigerian architect, philanthropist, and businesswoman born in Ibadan, Nigeria in June 1962 to Professor Sylvester Joseph Una and Obonganwan Ekpa Una. Princess Fifi, reputedly a billionaire, is an influential philanthropist, “ranked as one of...
by divimachine | Apr 6, 2022 | Global African History, People
Diébédo Francis Kéré is a Burkinabe architect internationally known for his innovative, often sustainable, and collaborative work. He is the first African to win the prestigious Pritzker Prize, often referred to as the Nobel Prize of architecture. Kéré was born on...
by LewisDavid | May 9, 2014 | African American History, People
Clarence Wesley Wigington, architect, was born April 21, 1883 in Lawrence, Kansas to Wesley Wigington and Jennie Mary Roberts. He was the fourth of twelve children. Between 1884 and 1908 the family moved seven times finally settling in Omaha, Nebraska where young...
by GaspaireBrent | Dec 19, 2009 | African American History, People
Robert Rochon Taylor was an architect and early housing activist in Chicago, Illinois, who became Chairman of the Chicago Housing Authority in 1942. He is the son of Robert Robinson Taylor, who was the first African American to graduate from the Massachusetts...
by GaspaireBrent | Dec 16, 2009 | African American History, People
Architect and educator Robert Robinson Taylor was the first African American to graduate from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). He is the father of architect and Chicago, Illinois, business leader Robert Rochon Taylor and the great-grandfather of...
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