The ASA team is delighted to have signed a contract with publisher James Currey for a new book, Architecture and Politics in Africa:...

Kuukuwa Manful, ASA Doctoral Researcher, has received funding from The SOAS Impact and Knowledge Exchange Fund (IKE) to produce digital...

by Julia Gallagher Is it possible to explain what states mean and how state-society relationships work by looking at and talking about...

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

Submission by Irene Addo Yaa Naa Palace, Wa, Ghana. The architecture is beautiful. It displays the minarets seen in Islamic architecture....

As the ASA project reaches its half-way mark, the team has produced a short film about its research activities. The film explores the...

Researchers, architects and students from Cote d’Ivoire, Ethiopia, France, Ghana, Germany, Switzerland the UK and US attended ASA’s...

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 Mulugeta Gebrie and Julia Gallagher will present papers at the annual Africa Studies Association Conference in November 2019 in...

Amos Rapaport says that it’s possible to read politics through the ‘non-verbal cues’ offered by buildings: their position in the city,...

ASA has recently become affiliated with the Institute of African Studies, University of Ghana. The relationship will enable mutual...

16th century Historically, there were several kingdoms, states, empires, and polities in and extending into the geographical area that...

1822 The Aban, also referred to as The Palace of Culture, was a grand building constructed to display the wealth, gifts and military...

1897 During the British colonial campaign in Ghana, several of the great buildings of Ghana-based empires and kingdoms were destroyed. In...

1961 Independence-era architecture in Ghana marked a break with traditional British forms and coincided with the modernist movement in...

TBC In recent times, state architecture projects in Ghana have usually been funded, designed and constructed by foreign countries such as...