Book Talk: Reading Nigeria's Invisible Landscapes In-Person

Join local author Joseph Godlewski for a discussion of his book The Architecture of the Bight of Biafra: Spatial Entanglements (Routledge, 2024).

Western architectural history rendered southeastern Nigerian landscapes invisible. Reading colonial archives against the grain reveals sophisticated spatial intelligence: compound organization, masquerade architectures, offshore settlements. This methodology for recovering overlooked landscapes offers lessons far beyond Nigeria, teaching us to see what has always been there.