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KICC amphitheatre from above during a Biennale talk The audience applauding a talk at Shah Houses Opening address in the KICC amphitheatre Panel discussion in a Nairobi garden courtyard Standing ovation at KICC Panel discussion in front of the Biennale backdrop A visitor at the Rwanda exhibit by MASS Design Group
Edition I · Nairobi · 7–11 September 2026Photos: Panzingo
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The Pan-African Biennale

The first continent-wide institution for architecture, design and the built environment in Africa.

Pan-African means Africa and beyond Africa. Its community, on the continent and across the world, writes the Biennale. Each edition is hosted by a different African city.

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Exhibition at Shah Houses, Ngara, with a painted canopy suspended above visitors Photo: Panzingo
Edition I · Nairobi 7–11 September 2026 · Concluded
Shifting the Center: From Fragility to Resilience Exhibition, programme, participants, films and the companion publication of the inaugural edition, at KICC and Shah Houses, Ngara.
Edition II Where next? The second Pan-African Biennale will be hosted by a new African city. The host city will be announced in the coming year. Every two years the Biennale moves to a different city on the continent. Each edition builds on the last, carrying forward its participants, its conversations and its archive.
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54
Countries represented
80
Speakers
30
Talks
5
Days of film screenings
9
Open offices
7
Workshops

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A visitor reading the Eritrea Collective exhibit Visitors at the Benin exhibit A visitor in VR at the Cabo Verde exhibit by Ramos Castellano Arquitectos Participants greeting each other outside KICC A woven bamboo and textile installation A visitor at the Rwanda exhibit by MASS Design Group
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Map of Africa coloured by the Biennale's five ecological zones

Participants · Edition I · Nairobi 2026

54 countries.
Five landscapes.

The participants of Edition I, Nairobi 2026. The inaugural edition read the continent by landscape rather than by border, and each nation was presented by a practice from within it: the Voices from Within.

Island NationsRainforest NationsDesert NationsSemi-Arid / Steppe NationsGrassland / Savanna Nations
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Voices from Within · Comoros

“On a volcanic island, architecture is first a way of remaining.”

Nadia Moussa, To Build With a Volcano, in the Edition I book · More voices

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