Who Decides What African Design Looks Like? | Pearl Lam & Tosin Oshinowo

What does African architecture look like when it stops borrowing its definition from the West?

In this episode of The Pearl Lam Podcast, Pearl sits down with Lagos-based architect Tosin Oshinowo to explore identity, modernism and the changing cultural confidence of Africa’s creative industries. Oshinowo argues that there is no single African identity, pointing to the continent’s extraordinary linguistic, ethnic and climatic diversity, and challenges many of the visual assumptions now associated with “African design.”

From Lagos’ ability to turn constraint into innovation to the growing influence of African architects, artists, musicians and designers, the conversation asks what happens when a new generation stops following inherited cultural models and begins defining modernity on its own terms.