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...
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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...
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...
Feb 22, 2021
Architecture and Politics in Africa
As the ASA project reaches its half-way mark, the team has produced a short film about its research activities. The film explores the...
Oct 13, 2020
[Video] Architecture and politics in Africa: making, living & imagining identities through buildings
Researchers, architects and students from Cote d’Ivoire, Ethiopia, France, Ghana, Germany, Switzerland the UK and US attended ASA’s...
Jun 17, 2020
Oct 28, 2019
Gallagher appointed specialist advisor to Parliamentary Inquiry
Julia Gallagher has been appointed as specialist advisor for a UK inquiry into UK-Africa relations being carried out by the UK House of...
Aug 27, 2019
Daniel and Gallagher to present at ASA in Boston
Daniel Mulugeta Gebrie and Julia Gallagher will present papers at the annual Africa Studies Association Conference in November 2019 in...
Aug 23, 2019
Building Bureaucracies in west Africa by Julia Gallagher
Amos Rapaport says that it’s possible to read politics through the ‘non-verbal cues’ offered by buildings: their position in the city,...
Apr 14, 2019
Grand-Bassam, Côte d’Ivoire
1893 - 1966 Grand-Bassam was Côte d’Ivoire’s original colonial capital under French rule, from 1893 to 1966. As Abidjan grew and...
Apr 13, 2019
La Pyramide, Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire
1968 La Pyramide is a dramatic modernist statement and one of the most distinctive features of Abidjan’s Plateau district. It was...
Apr 12, 2019
La Cité Administrative, Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire
1977-1984 La Cité Administrative comprises five tower blocks that are home to the majority of Côte d’Ivoire’s government departments....
Apr 11, 2019
Basilica of our Lady of Peace, Yamoussoukro, Côte d’Ivoire
1989 Reputed to be the largest Catholic church in the world, the Basilica dominates Yamoussoukro, Côte d’Ivoire’s modest administrative...
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