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Burkina Faso-born architect Francis Diebedo Kere wins prestigious Pritzker Prize

Burkinabe architect Diebedo Francis Kere is photographed in his office in Berlin on 15 March 2022, after being awarded the 2022 Pritzker Architecture Prize. © AFP/Odd Andersen

The Pritzker Prize, architecture's most prestigious award, was awarded this week to Burkina Faso-born architect Francis Diebedo Kere - the first African to win the honor in its more than 40-year history.

Kere, 56, was hailed for his "pioneering" designs that are "sustainable to the earth and its inhabitants - in lands of extreme scarcity,"

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