I made this thread on another site and it was well liked...Anyways...One misconception people have about Africans prior to colonization is that only Egypt and maybe the rest of North Africa(again maybe) had veryarchitecture while the rest of Africa lived inor were just. Not saying there is anything wrong with mud huts, but saying most if not all lived in mud huts is void. Some African societies were more or less advanced than others, so again to say to say that mud huts were the basic of African living is again...Void and also ignorant. Also the irony is the stone monuments of Ancient Egypt in the form of temples and tombs werededicated to gods and pharaohs. Virtuallycities in Egypt were constructed of 'mud-brick' and 'wood' and even then such cities were few and far between throughout the country of Egypt. This is the reason why Egypt was popularly called by archaeologists a civilization. Ironically, West Africans built many cities yet their civilizations tended to be ignored by some Westerners as part of propaganda to demoralize and denigrate them.Anyways many African cultures built cities; however very few of them were constructed by stone. In African cultures, large monuments and structures constructed of permanent and endurable material such as stone was built for spirits of the dead or the gods and meant to last for eternity, whereas large monuments and structures constructed for living yet mortal people were constructed of more temporary and perishable materials such as adobe (mud-brick) or wood.^^^What I'm basically trying to imply is that you shouldn't judge African civilizations/cultures by. The so called Afrocentrics make that mistake-__-But the question is...Did most orAfrican cultures/civilizations live in mud huts like these?The answer is no...Like I said before African societies/cultures were/are too diverse to make a void statement like that. That's why I decided to make this thread, to educate the people who are less informed about the diversity of African Architecture and to also educate the so called Afrocentrics for putting so much focus on Ancient Egypt and not the rest of Africa, WHICH HAS BEEN IGNORED. All can contribute btw.I will refrain from posting Ancient Egyptian architecture/ruins and will only focus on non Egypt areas of Africa.Anyways lets begin...