Our Landscapes Nigeria

On  today's episode of Our Landscape Nigeria, I review a book, Plant Photobook for Greenhorns, by Amos Atumye Alao, a book about plants in the tropical region of Africa, specifically aimed at Nigeria, The book is split into 2 major parts, the first part which covers topics like how to use the book, factors to consider when selecting plants, watering your plants and all other general need-to-know of plants. 

The second section of the book delves into the different groupings of plant types from shrubs to lilies, to Palms, trees, grass, etc, you will find over 150 selection of plants in the book with information on best conditions to plant them, how to care for them and what to do when they are sick.

On today's episode of Our Landscape Nigeria, we discuss a 2017 article written by Win Phyo, a Landscape Architect practising in the UK made a list of some of the problems plaguing the Landscape Architecture profession, some of these problems are compelling and they span far beyond  the UK where she practices and the US where we have some of the first Landscape Architects, some of these problems are global and I sat with Amos Alao, a Landscape Architect in Nigeria and Win to discuss these  problems on a global scale and as the author what she thinks is  radically different from when the article was written in 2017 and now in  2020, while a pandemic is ravaging the world, do we have more problems  now or does she think some of these problems highlighted in the article  are irrelevant today.

On today’s episode of Our Landscape Nigeria podcast, continuing from  the theme of the last episode, I will be talking about history, the history of Landscape Architecture profession in Nigeria, why the profession is still quite young despite having Landscape Architects as far back as the 1970's, the ripple effects of the military rule in Nigeria, and the current structure in SLAN.

On today’s episode of Our Landscape Nigeria podcast, continuing from the theme of the last episode, I will be talking about historic landscape preservation.

On today’s episode, I talked about Ado-Awaye, a small town in Oyo State, their history and the importance of documentation,.

Ado-Awaye has the only suspended lake in Nigeria and today’s episode is a combination of my narration and my conversation with Kehinde, a resident of Ado-Awaye during my visit. I connected Historic Landscape preservation with some of the places and spaces in Ado-Awaye, with their history and past civilization.

On this debut episode, we talk to Roberta Oramabo about her journey as a Landscape Architect and the projects she is currently working on, a recent transplant from Nigeria to Canada, she also shed some light on how she has been able to adjust to life in Canada as a Landscape Architect and some differences in the system she left. We also talked about her misconceptions about the study of Landscape Architecture and how it was a bucket list item to be ticked off.