Reimagining African Futures – ASA workshop
11 young architects, urban planners and policy-makers from eight African countries gathered in Accra in September 2022 to discuss urban...
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Jul 14, 2022
‘Invented modernisms’: New article from the ASA team
Kuukuwa Manful, Innocent Batsani-Ncube and Julia Gallagher have published a new article about modernism and political architecture in...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Apr 29, 2021
Yaa Naa Palace, Wa, Ghana
Submission by Irene Addo Yaa Naa Palace, Wa, Ghana. The architecture is beautiful. It displays the minarets seen in Islamic architecture....
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,...
Jul 17, 2019
New Ghana affiliation
ASA has recently become affiliated with the Institute of African Studies, University of Ghana. The relationship will enable mutual...
Jan 31, 2018
Palace of the Wa Naa, Wa, Ghana
16th century Historically, there were several kingdoms, states, empires, and polities in and extending into the geographical area that...
Jan 30, 2018
The Aban, Kumase, Ghana
1822 The Aban, also referred to as The Palace of Culture, was a grand building constructed to display the wealth, gifts and military...
Jan 29, 2018
Kumasi Fort, Ghana
1897 During the British colonial campaign in Ghana, several of the great buildings of Ghana-based empires and kingdoms were destroyed. In...
Jan 28, 2018
Black Star Gate, Accra, Ghana
1961 Independence-era architecture in Ghana marked a break with traditional British forms and coincided with the modernist movement in...
Jan 27, 2018
Ghana National Cathedral, Accra, Ghana
TBC In recent times, state architecture projects in Ghana have usually been funded, designed and constructed by foreign countries such as...
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