Architecture and Politics in Africa: making, living and imagining identities through building is runner up in the African Studies Review...

Members of the ASA team will present their new film - 'Building Africa: five stories about how architecture shapes the continent' - at...

There’s a lovely article about the ASA exhibition that was staged in Johannesburg in August 2023. It’s written by Hashim Tarmahomed and...

The Building Africa Exhibition moves to South Africa this month, with a new show in Johannesburg from 31 July until 11 August. The show...

Joanne Tomkinson talks to Julia Gallagher about her recently published article ‘Origination and Africa’s international relations:...

The Building Africa Addis Ababa exhibition ended last week, having attracted several hundred visitors and substantial local media...

FANA, the Ethiopian state TV station, carried a news story about our exhibition. Watch it here. You can see the exhibition online from 10...

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The Building Africa exhibition’s closing day is Friday 5 May. The show is at the Alle School of Fine Arts and Design, Addis Ababa...

Julia Gallagher will give a talk at the University of Addis Ababa on 8 May 2023. The talk is called ‘The invisible state? How Ethiopians...

The ASA exhibition Building Africa is on from this Saturday in Addis Ababa. The exhibition has been designed by Ethiopian designer and...

The African State Architecture’s new exhibition opens in the Addis Ababa Museum, Meskel Square, Addis Ababa on 29 April 2023. The...

Innocent’s work is featured in Voice of America News in an article by Kate Bartlett called ‘Why China is building Africa’s new...

11 young architects, urban planners and policy-makers from eight African countries gathered in Accra in September 2022 to discuss urban...

Twenty scholars of architecture and politics in Africa gathered in Accra for ASA’s academic workshop in September 2022. The workshop was...

Kuukuwa will be starting a one-year post-doctoral fellowship with the ASA team from October 2022. She will work on a number of projects...

The ASA team is delighted to announce the publication of its book, Architecture and Politics in Africa: making, living and imagining...

Please join us for our book launch at the Institute of African Studies, University of Ghana. Some of the book’s editors and authors will...

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...