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    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...
    • 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...
    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...
    • 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 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...
    Yaa Naa Palace, Wa, Ghana
    • 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....
    Architecture and Politics in Africa
    • 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...
    [Video] Architecture and politics in Africa: making, living & imagining identities through buildings
    • 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...
    Julia Gallagher talks about the project.
    • Jun 17, 2020

    Julia Gallagher talks about the project.

    • 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...
    Daniel and Gallagher to present at ASA in Boston
    • 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...
    Building Bureaucracies in west Africa by Julia Gallagher
    • 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...
    Palace of the Wa Naa, Wa, Ghana
    • 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...
    The Aban, Kumase, Ghana
    • 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...
    Kumasi Fort, Ghana
    • 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...
    Black Star Gate, Accra, Ghana
    • 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...
    Ghana National Cathedral, Accra, Ghana
    • 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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