Childhood friends Mariama Djambony Badji and Papa Mafall Diop were both fascinated by buildings and how they are constructed, and they dreamed of starting a company together. “I initially wanted to study architecture, but then I studied civil engineering, like Mafall,” Badjj explained.
“Despite going to different universities, we always stayed in touch,” Badjj explained. Then Christelle Auxencia Lebrun, a friend from her civil engineering course, decided to join them to start their own company, Design Engineering Architecture (DNA), in 2019.
Initially, it was difficult for the three to manage studying and working in parallel, and it took until 2020 for the enterprise to take off. “When COVID started, we didn’t have to go to university anymore physically, so we had more flexibility. We started building our offices while supervising the workers on the site, we had our…
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