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DESCRIPTION:Jul 5\, 2026 - Jan 2\, 2027\nWhen Ghana gained independence in 
 1957\, Kwame Nkrumah\, the country’s first president\, commissioned a ne
 w capital. When Senegal became independent in 1960\, its first president\,
  Léopold Sédar Senghor\, ordered new universities\, cultural centers\, a
 nd government buildings. Across West Africa\, from the late 1950s through 
 the early 1980s\, the leaders of newly independent nations understood that
  architecture was politics—that to build was to declare\, in concrete an
 d steel\, that colonialism was over. Presenting the first major exhibition
  to examine this period\, MoMA looks at seven countries—Benin\, Cameroon
 \, Côte d’Ivoire\, Ghana\, Nigeria\, Senegal\, Togo—and 450 objects: 
 drawings\, models\, and archival photographs\, the vast majority never pre
 viously exhibited. The result is deep dive into a largely unknown chapter 
 in the history of modernism.
LOCATION:Museum of Modern Art\, 11 W 53rd St\, New York\, NY 10019\, United
  States
SUMMARY:Architects of Liberation: Modernism in Western Africa
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 ion-modernism-in-western-africa
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