Olufemi is an architect, designer, researcher and curator based in Cotonou, Benin. She is the founder of Sah Studio, a polymath research- based practice in Cotonou, developing projects from various scales and materiality, celebrating the local context with a focus on decolonizing architecture. Her process flows around design and research on biodiversity in the city, heritage, informality and habitat in Cotonou and West Africa.

She holds a Bachelor of Architecture (B. Sc) and 2 masters , a Fine Arts (MFA) in the United Kingdom and a Master of Architecture and HMONP from Ecole Spéciale  d’Architecture, Paris. She has worked in Dakar, Paris, Abidjan and Cotonou where oversaw as project manager for world class architects, Benin’s leading construction project, 20 000 housings.

She participated in the 14th and 18th Venice Biennale, exhibited at African Mobilities in Architekturmuseum, Munich and is the Laureate of the Prince Claus Building Beyond 2023 Prize.  She is the co-author of Building African Future (Iwaléwabooks, 2023).

She has, over the last 10 years, developed a keen interest in West African architecture spanning from vernacular to postmodern, through her various travels in the continents, culminating in her appointment as curator for the first West African architecture exhibition at the Dak’art Biennale 2024 OFF for EUNIC entitled «  Architecture of West Africa: Yesterday’s Heritage, Tomorrow’s cities ». She is a member of the Beninese Board of Architects and a tutor at Africa Design School in Cotonou.