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The architecture of colonial imprisonment: The afterlives of colonial incarceration in Africa

Thu 29 Feb

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The architecture of colonial imprisonment: The afterlives of colonial incarceration in Africa
The architecture of colonial imprisonment: The afterlives of colonial incarceration in Africa

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29 Feb 2024, 17:00

London, SOAS, University of London Thornhaugh Street, Russell Sq, London WC1B 5DQ, UK

About the event

The history of incarceration in Africa stretches from the slave trade to the current day.  Prisons were often some of the first buildings built by colonial powers in Africa.  Numerous colonial  incarceration practices across time and space resulted in the erection of varied architectures of incarceration slave forts to detention camps.  This talk explores how some of these sites are currently used and remembered in Ghana, Kenya and South Africa.  It explores how the architecture of these sites, their positioning within a broader landscape, and their contemporary usage, shapes the ways in which they are understood by the communities that surround them, and engage with or avoid them.

Bio

Dr.  Laura Routley is a Reader in African Politics at Newcastle university.  She is also the Principle Investigator on the  Leverhulme funded research project – which explores the memory politics of former sites of colonial imprisonment across Ghana, Kenya, Nigeria, and South…

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This project has received funding from the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme (grant agreement No 772070). 
Views and opinions expressed are however those of the author(s) only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or the European Research Council Executive Agency. Neither the European Union nor the granting authority can be held responsible for them.

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