My name is Tosin Oshinowo; I am a Lagos-based Nigerian architect and designer. My perspective on design, though rooted in West Africa, and shaped by Yoruba culture, calibrates regional approaches to global social and environmental challenges. Our group, Oshinowo Studio, was asked to develop a vision for the UN's Homes for Ngarannam project. The goal was to design a settlement town more closely related to the Kanuri /Islamic culture than the existing resettlement programs that have been executed in the state. As Architects/Urban designers, we believe in ‘human-centred design’, where interventions are consciously suited to cultural, environmental, and climatic needs. It was important to us to propose building scale and materiality that is appropriate, conscious, and respectful to the way of life that existed before the insurgency.