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China and African Parliaments

Innocent Batsani-Ncube

(Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2025)

 

Building African Futures: 10 Manifestos for Transformative Architecture and Urbanism 

Kuukuwa Manful, Emmanuel Ofori-Sarpong and Julia Gallagher (eds)

(Johannesburg, Lagos, Bayreuth: iwalewabooks, 2023)

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Architecture and Politics in Africa: making, living and imagining identities through buildings 

Joanne Tomkinson, Daniel Mulugeta and Julia Gallagher (eds) 

(Oxford: James Currey, 2022)

 

Introduction: Buildings are the stuff of politics, Daniel Mulugeta, Joanne Tomkinson and Julia Gallagher 

 

PART 1: MAKING 

1. Global ambitions and national identity in Ethiopia’s airport expansion, Joanne Tomkinson and Dawit Yekoyesew 

2. Building heaven on earth: Political rhetoric and ritual over Ghana’s national cathedral, Emmanuel K. Ofori-Sarpong 

3. China’s ‘parliament building gift’ to Malawi: Exploring its rationale, tensions and asymmetrical gains,

Innocent Batsani-Ncube 

4. New homes for a new state: Foreign ideas in Ghana’s public housing programmes, Irene Appeaning Addo 

 

PART 2: LIVING 

5. Beautiful state/ugly state: Architecture and political authority in Côte d’Ivoire, Julia Gallagher

and Yah Ariane Bernadette N’djoré 

6. Colonial legacies in architectures of consumption: The case of Sam Levy’s Village in Harare, Tonderai Koschke 

7. Public spaces? Public goods? Reinventing Nairobi’s public libraries, Marie Gibert 

8. The role of architecture in South African detention cases during the apartheid era, Yusuf Patel 


 

PART 3: IMAGINING 

9. Pan-African imaginations: The African Union headquarters and its popular imagery in Ethiopia and Nigeria, 


Daniel Mulugeta 

10. Asantean noumena: The politics and imaginary reconstruction of
the Asante Palace, Kumase, Tony Yeboah 

11. From prison to freedom: Overwriting the past, imagining Nigeria, Laura Routley 

 

Afterword: Theorising the politics of unformal(ised) architectures, Kuukuwa Manful 

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Articles in peer-reviewed journals

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• Innocent Batsani-Ncube (2025) 'China’s ‘subtle ingratiation’ in the Global South: evidence from Zimbabwe',  Third World Quarterly, 1–19. https://doi.org/10.1080/01436597.2025.2456831 - open access

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• Moudwe Daga and Julia Gallagher, ‘“Speaking proper French”: citizen bids for state-recognition in Chad and Côte d’Ivoire’, Global Discourse, 2024, https://doi.org/10.1332/20437897Y2023D000000030 - open access
   

• Joanne Tomkinson (2023) ‘Origination and Africa’s international relations: gatemaking and airport politics in Ethiopia and Ghana’, Third World Quarterly, DOI: 10.1080/01436597.2023.2213642 - open access
   

• Innocent Batsani-Ncube (2022) ‘Whose Building? Tracing the Politics of the Chinese Government-Funded Parliament Building in Lesotho’ Journal of Southern African Studies, 2022, DOI: 10.1080/03057070.2022.2122385 - open access

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• Innocent Batsani-Ncube, Purpose-Built Parliament Buildings and the Institutionalisation of Parliament in Lesotho and Malawi, Parliamentary Affairs, 2022;, gsac017, https://doi.org/10.1093/pa/gsac017 - open access
   

• Kuukuwa Manful, Innocent Batsani-Ncube and Julia Gallagher (2022) 'Invented Modernisms: Getting to Grips with Modernity in Three African State Buildings' Curator: the Museum Journal, 2022,  https://doi.org/10.1111/cura.12505 – open access

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• Kuukuwa O Manful (2022) ‘Research with African adolescents: critical epistemologies and methodological considerations’ African Affairs, https://doi.org/10.1093/afraf/adac020 – open access

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• Julia Gallagher (2022) ‘Making sense of the state: citizens and state buildings in South Africa’, Political Geography, 98 – open access

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• Julia Gallagher, Daniel Mulugeta, Atnatewos Melakeselam & Joanne Tomkinson (2022) ‘The histories buildings tell: aesthetic and popular readings of state meaning in Ethiopia’, Journal of Eastern African Studies RJEA, DOI: 10.1080/17531055.2022.2068234 – open access

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• Daniel Mulugeta (2021) ‘Pan-Africanism and the affective charges of the African Union Building in Addis Ababa’, Journal of African Cultural Studies, DOI: 10.1080/13696815.2021.1884971 pp. 1-17 – open access
   

• Julia Gallagher, Dennis Larbi Mpere and Yah Ariane N’djoré (2021) ‘State aesthetics and state meanings: political architecture in Ghana and Côte d’Ivoire’, African Affairs 120 (480), pp. 333-364 – open access

 

Book chapters

 

• Julia Gallagher (2021) ‘State-house: reading statehood through metaphors of home’, in Philipp Meuser and Adil Dalbai (eds) Architectural Guide to Sub-Saharan Africa (Berlin: DOM)
   

• Kuukuwa Manful (2021) ‘Indigenous architecture in precolonial architecture of Ghana’, in Philipp Meuser and Adil Dalbai (eds) Architectural Guide to Sub-Saharan Africa (Berlin: DOM)
   

• Kuukuwa Manful (2021) ‘Introduction to Ghana’, in Philipp Meuser and Adil Dalbai (eds) Architectural Guide to Sub-Saharan Africa (Berlin: DOM)

 

Other recently published work from the team
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• Innocent Batsani-Ncube (2021) ‘Governing from the opposition?’: Tracing the impact of EFF’s ‘niche populist politics on ANC policy shifts’, Africa Review, 13(2), pp. 199-216 

   

• Kuukuwa Manful (2020) 'Innovation potentials for construction materials with specific focus on the challenges in Africa',  RILEM Technical Letters
   

• Kuukuwa Manful (2020) 'Objects of Study: A Response to Don’t Touch My Hair by Emma Dabiri',  Journal of African Cultural Studies 33(1), pp. 111–112

   

• Daniel Mulugeta (2019) 'Everyday conceptions of the state in Ethiopia: corruption discourses, moral idioms and the ideals of mengist', Critical African Studies 11(3), pp. 285-300
   

• Daniel Mulugeta (2019) 'Dynamics of state-society relations in Ethiopia: paradoxes of community empowerment and participation in irrigation management', Journal of Eastern African Studies 11(3), pp. 285-300
   

• Daniel Mulugeta (2020) The everyday state in Africa: governance practices and state ideas in Ethiopia. Routledge

   

• Julia Gallagher (2020) ‘The monster that hid under a desk:  Zimbabwe and the West’, in Miles Tendi, JoAnn McGregor & Jocelyn Alexander (eds)  Oxford Handbook of Zimbabwean Politics Oxford University Press
   

• Julia Gallagher (2018) Zimbabwe’s international relations: fantasy, reality and the making of the state, Cambridge University Press
   

• Julia Gallagher (2018) ‘Misrecognition and the making of a state: Ghana’s international relations under Kwame Nkrumah’, Review of International Studies, 44, pp. 882–901