For the penultimate article in our collaboration with Dom Publishers, the editors of the Sub-Saharan Africa Architectural Guide have selected their architectural highlights from countries in central Africa.
Written to be a comprehensive guide to the architecture of the 49 sub-Saharan countries in Africa, the Sub-Saharan Africa Architectural Guide features over 850 buildings.
Dom Publishers' Sub-Saharan Africa Architectural Guide
Named Central Africa from the Atlantic Ocean to the Great Lakes, the sixth volume of the publication features buildings in Cameroon, Equatorial Guinea, São Tomé and Príncipe, Gabon, Republic of the Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Central African Republic and Angola.
Read on for picks from each country in the region selected by editors Philipp Meuser and Adil Dalbai:
Photo is by Bob Scaff
Cameroon

Yaoundé City Hall, Yaoundé, by Armand Salomon
The town hall of Youndé is one of the icons of African architecture as a whole.
Built in the early 1980s, it looks like a spaceship from the cosmic age of the 1960s that landed too late. Nevertheless, its architectural expressiveness has no comparison in central Africa.
The building's French archi­tect, Armand Salomon, arrived in Cameroon for the first time in around 1956, when the country was still under French rule. He was the first foreigner to­ be a licensed archi­tect in Cameroon.
Although of Euro­pean descent, Salomon felt it was important to create archi­tecture that was ins­p...