"I’m interested in Africa not because I’m African, but because it’s this very particular continent with very unique geographies and extraordinary cultures. It’s the birthplace of humanity. It has this incredible precedent that is only referred to in terms of the Northern Hemisphere in critical architectural discussion, mostly because colonialism wiped out most of the architecture in the Southern Hemisphere. There are so many fragments in its art and its cultures that are incredibly instructive in dealing with a hybridized, globalized world. I started going back to Africa on my own and doing research on my own. It took me 11 years to visit every single country on the continent"." - David Adjaye