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    New article on Ethiopian architecture and history
    • May 5

    New article on Ethiopian architecture and history

    The article explores how Ethiopia’s state history is told through buildings. It discusses the ways ancient architecture describes key...
    • May 5

    Call for participants: Reimagining African Futures through Transformative Urbanism and Architecture

    Reimagining African Futures through Transformative Urbanism and Architecture A Symposium for Practitioners organised by the African State...
    Kuukuwa Manful speaks to BBC World about her project to preserve Ghana's history
    • Apr 25

    Kuukuwa Manful speaks to BBC World about her project to preserve Ghana's history

    Kuukuwa has been leading a project to digitise important historical archives in Accra Ghana. These detail the capital's history of...
    • Apr 23

    Listen to Julia Gallagher talk about her African architecture project on BBC's Start the Week

    Listen to Julia Gallagher talk about her African architecture project on BBC's Start the Week Julia appears with novelist NoViolet...
    • Apr 11

    Julia Gallagher to appear on BBC Radio's Start the Week

    Julia will join the author NoViolet Bulawayo and journalist Dipo Faloyin on a programme exploring depictions of Africa. The programme...
    Innocent Batsani-Ncube joins SOAS as Usawa Post-Doctoral Fellow.
    • Mar 14

    Innocent Batsani-Ncube joins SOAS as Usawa Post-Doctoral Fellow.

    Innocent Batsani-Ncube, previously ASA doctoral student, joins the Usawa Postdoctoral Fellow at SOAS, Politics and International Studies...
    Video | State aesthetics and state meanings: Political architecture in Ghana and Côte d’Ivoire
    • Mar 14

    Video | State aesthetics and state meanings: Political architecture in Ghana and Côte d’Ivoire

    Julia Gallagher talks to Innocent Batsani-Ncube about 'State aesthetics and state meanings: Political architecture in Ghana and Côte...
    • Mar 8

    ASA team to present work at BISA conference

    Julia Gallagher, Daniel Mulugeta and Innocent Batsani-Ncube will present work at the next British International Studies Association...
    • Mar 4

    Deadline extended - Architecture and IR: call for papers for Accra workshop

    The call for papers - Architecture and IR, deadline has been extended to Tuesday 15 March 2022. The conference will be held at Accra from...
    Architecture and IR: call for papers for Accra workshop
    • Feb 7

    Architecture and IR: call for papers for Accra workshop

    Architecture in Africa’s International Relations Workshop organised by the Institute for African Studies, University of Ghana, the...
    • Dec 9, 2021

    Pan-Africanism: the quest for autonomy in the ages of empire and globalisation

    Daniel Mulugeta will give a paper on his work at the John & Elnora Ferguson Centre for African Studies, University of Bradford on...
    Batsani-Ncube conducts archival research on African sport governance architecture in Switzerland.
    • Nov 26, 2021

    Batsani-Ncube conducts archival research on African sport governance architecture in Switzerland.

    ASA Doctoral Researcher, Innocent Batsani-Ncube recently conducted a week-long archival research on the Confederation of African Football...
    • Nov 15, 2021

    Batsani-Ncube’s book review article published.

    Innocent Batsani-Ncube’s review of Jonathan Moyo’s book, “EXCELGATE: how Zimbabwe’s 2018 Presidential election was stolen”, has just been...
    New book on Politics and Architecture
    • Oct 22, 2021

    New book on Politics and Architecture

    The ASA team is delighted to have signed a contract with James Currey for a new book, Architecture and Politics in Africa: making, living...
    Julia Gallagher joined Peace Medie and Simukai Chigudu at the Cheltenham Literary Festival
    • Oct 19, 2021

    Julia Gallagher joined Peace Medie and Simukai Chigudu at the Cheltenham Literary Festival

    Julia Gallagher joined Peace Medie (Bristol) and Simukai Chigudu (Oxford) for a panel session on Africa: the next ten years at the...
    • Sep 17, 2021

    Manful at The 16th International Docomomo Conference

    Kuukuwa Manful, ASA Doctoral Researcher, is presenting her research at the 16th International Docomomo Conference – Tokyo, Japan 2020+1....
    • Sep 17, 2021

    Manful receives SOAS impact and knowledge exchange funding

    Kuukuwa Manful, ASA Doctoral Researcher, has received funding from The SOAS Impact and Knowledge Exchange Fund (IKE) to produce digital...
    Julia Gallagher to speak at The Times and The Sunday Times Cheltenham Literature Festival.
    • Aug 27, 2021

    Julia Gallagher to speak at The Times and The Sunday Times Cheltenham Literature Festival.

    Julia Gallagher will speak at The Times and The Sunday Times Cheltenham Literature Festival on a panel with Simukai Chigudu, Associate...
    • Aug 6, 2021

    State aesthetics and state meanings: political architecture in Ghana and Côte d’Ivoire

    by Julia Gallagher Is it possible to explain what states mean and how state-society relationships work by looking at and talking about...
    New article on architecture in Ghana and Côte d’Ivoire
    • Aug 2, 2021

    New article on architecture in Ghana and Côte d’Ivoire

    Gallagher, Mpere and N’djoré’s article on architectural aesthetics and statehood in Ghana and Côte d’Ivoire has just been published in...
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