To conclude our collaboration with Dom Publishers, the editors of the Sub-Saharan Africa Architectural Guide have picked architecture highlights from southern Africa.
Edited by Philipp Meuser and Adil Dalbai, the Sub-Saharan Africa Architectural Guide features over 850 buildings from the 49 sub-Saharan countries in Africa.
"For the very first time the architecture of every sub-Saharan country is presented individually in an individual chapter, some of which cover the respective country's contemporary architecture for the first time ever," explained Dalbai in an interview with Dezeen.
Dom Publishers' Sub-Saharan Africa Architectural Guide
The publication is divided into seven volumes with the final book focused on southern Africa. It features buildings in Namibia, Mozambique, Malawi, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Botswana, Eswatini, Lesotho and South Africa. Read on for Meuser and Dalbai's picks from each country:

Photo by Onejoon Che
Namibia

Independence Memorial Museum, ?Windhoek, by Mansudae Overseas Projects
The Independence Memorial Museum is part of an agreement between Namibia and North Korea to realise three huge nation-building projects. It presents a contentious string of recent developments in Namibia.
When North Korea's economic situation dramatically worsened in the mid 1990s, the construction company Mansudae Overseas Projects began to send artists, architects, and workers to Africa.
Since then, the group has earned vast sums in foreign currency by constru...