"The glow of delicioous tension coudn't be faked, not at any price. So when you leave, that's when you realise you've …"

"How could you teach someone to survive? You pointed them in the right direction and hoped they'd swim, not sink. Wavi…"

"I think all cultural output is a form of narrative. Somebody once said that culture is the sum total of stories we te…"

"I don't expect this exhibition to teach anybody anything, I don't think it's a didactic exhibition. That's not to say…"

"It is an opportunity to talk to the rest of the world about Africa, and also to talk to Africa from here (Venice). Th…"

"When you are African, you speak to a world that has an existing view of who and what you are. You walk with this kind…"

"I’ve always thought of ‘race’ as a powerfully creative category of exploration and expression. I was fed up trying to…"

"There’s something about the training of an architect that’s particularly suited to our time: it’s about bringing disp…"

"Architects have the power to change the culture of how we build and how we think about resources."

"No job is worth one’s life."