Mud has been a cornerstone of indigenous architecture in places like Subsaharan Africa, but in the mid-nineties, cities like Dakar in Senegal started to abandon mud for much less sustainable concrete, a legacy of colonial rule.

泥土一直是撒哈拉以南非洲等地本土建筑的基石，但在九十年代中期， 塞内加尔达喀尔等城市开始放弃泥土， 改用不太可持续的混凝土，这是殖民统治的遗产。