I grew up in the Northwest Region of Cameroon and I have spent years trying to explain why I cannot stop talking about architecture. This is why… When you walk through most of our quarters and towns, what stands with any dignity is almost always what the colonial administration built and left behind. The post offices. The government buildings. The old road alignments. Not because colonialism was good, but because what we have built with our own hands in the sixty years since is, in most places, worse.