Mariam Issoufou talks to the Guardian’s architecture critic, Oliver Wainwright

Mariam Issoufou talks to Guardian architecture critic, Oliver Wainwright, about her work at Mariam Issoufou Architects. She reflects on how her childhood growing up in the Sahara desert, among the majestic adobe structures in Agadez was such an inspiration for her later career as an architect. “There were no role models,” she says. “I didn’t know of any architects in Niger, let alone any women in the field.”

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