Histographies of architecture: a first analysis of the changing roof landscape in rural Kenya

In the last 50 years, the roof landscape of Sub-saharan Africa has undergone a massive transformation that historians have not yet studied. Since the early 1980s, traditional grass-thatched roofs have mainly been replaced by corrugated iron sheet roofs (Kenya National Bureau of Statistics, 2019).<br/><br/>I witnessed this transformation while...