The African Futures Institute is the brainchild of Professor Lesley Lokko OBE, winner of the 2024 RIBA Royal Gold Medal for Architecture and Curator of the 18th International Architecture Exhibition at La Biennale di Venezia. It began life in 2021 in Accra, Ghana as a new model for architectural education centred on three areas: teaching, research and public events. Since then, it has branched into new territories including curatorial practice, exhibitions, and publishing. After the success of the Venice Architecture Biennale, involving its curatorial, research and administrative teams, the African Futures Institute is now committed to developing new forms of teaching through its new and innovative Nomadic African Studio. We have a vision of a new kind of institute of architecture and the built environment, headquartered on the African continent but with truly global reach. A space that is simultaneously physical and digital, bringing together the best minds under one roof to explore diverse, radical, and genuinely inclusive ways to tackle some of the world’s most pressing and difficult challenges. On the world’s youngest and fastest-urbanising continent, Africa, we understand how urgent it is to start thinking — and educating — differently. We’re not just concerned with Africa’s future, but rather how Africa’s future impacts us all.