Burkina Faso’s Francis Kere receives 2022 Pritzker Architecture Prize

• Diebedo Francis Kere of Burkina Faso has been declared the 2022 Laureate of the Pritzker Architecture Prize.
• Pritzker Prize is the highest and most prestigious honour in architecture field, founded in 1979.
• Francis Kere is the 51st winner of the award and the first Black person to receive the honour.
• He is also the recipient of the 2004 Aga Khan Award for Architecture