For the first time in its history, architecture's top award goes to a Black architect

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Diébédo Francis Kéré appears on a Zoom screen in a loose white Oxford shirt and an enormous, slightly flabbergasted smile.

"Can you imagine?" the newest Pritzker Architecture Prize laureate exclaims. "I was born in Burkina Faso, in this little village where there was no school. And my father wanted me to learn how to read and write very simply because then I could then translate or read him his letters."