What A Project, What A Challenge!: Africas Leading Architect Gives Thomas Sankara A Proper Place Of Rest

Pritzker prize-winner Francis Kr has designed a memorial to honour Africas Che Guevara, Burkina Fasos visionary president who was assassinated in 1987 Francis Kr was the first African architect to when he scooped the Nobel prize of architecture in 2022. A native of Gando, a small village in Burkina Fasos Central-East region, Kr was once criticised by his neighbours for building a school for the village before constructing a house for his parents. But that project has led to commissions including the new , the and the . I wanted to give something to my people, and that has given me an international career, he says of his decision to .