The ASA team’s latest article, ‘Speaking proper French’: citizen bids for state recognition in Chad and Côte d’Ivoire, is out now and...

China has been donating parliament buildings to African countries that do not yet have purpose-built facilities of their own. However, to...

By Innocent B. Ncube The People’s Republic of China has fully financed the construction of at least 15 new African parliamentary...

Julia Gallagher, Kuukuwa Manful and Innocent Batsani-Ncube Modernist architecture has had a complicated time embodying the post-colonial...

Kuukuwa Manful, Innocent Batsani-Ncube and Julia Gallagher have published a new article about modernism and political architecture in...

Daniel Mulugeta talks about his article 'Pan-Africanism and the Affective Charges of the African Union Building in Addis Ababa'. Link to...

By Kuukuwa O Manful In my recently published article titled “Research with African adolescents: Critical Epistemologies and...

Trying to understand how states are put together, I’ve been looking at them as physical entities, as bodies. This means exploring state...

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

by Daniel Mulugeta The African Union Commission (AUC) headquarters, which includes a conference centre and a 20-story office complex, is...

By Sunil Pun On October 2020, ASA project put forth a call for nominations for Africa’s favourite building. Since then, we have received...

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...

by Atnatewos Melake-Selam, Daniel Mulugeta, Joanne Tomkinson and Julia Gallagher The story of Ethiopia’s state has been told through...

By Dr Joanne Tomkinson In February 2020, I was conducting research in Ethiopia for the African State Architecture (ASA) project. My area...

by Innocent Batsani Ncube Parliament building in Harare, Zimbabwe seen from Nelson Mandela Avenue One of the most enduring legends in...

State-ments, an exhibition that draws on Julia Gallagher’s research on popular ideas of state buildings, has just finished a tour of five...

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

South Africans, like other post-colonial societies, face the dilemma of how to replace and yet also reproduce the state. The difficulty...

Ethiopia’s Bole International Airport, located in capital Addis Ababa, has been markedly expanded in the last few years. It is now home...