Sub-Saharan Africa, often overlooked in architectural history literature, is a region not “apart from the world”, but one intricately linked to the world through among other things, networks of the trans-Saharan trade, the spread of religion, the Middle Passage, and colonialism. In part due to its lightweight construction and relative impermanence combined with legacies of colonial representation, and the problem of fewer archival documents to trace its history, the architecture of Sub-Saharan Africa has been comparatively undervalued. Rather than a static building tradition, it is a collection of dynamic practices characterized by symbolism, ephemerality, creative adaptation, and movement. This module seeks to introduce undergraduate architecture students to a wide array of examples from a range of cultures highlighting the innovative ways the architecture of the region has met the needs of its users and conveyed complex cultural meanings over time. It seeks to undermine misconceptions of timeless and unchanging African vernacular forms. This module, titled “Continuity and Change in Sub-Saharan Architecture”, is a set of four lectures loosely organized according to scale and bu...