Submission by Lutz Marten Findeco House on Cairo Road in Lusaka, Zambia. The building dominates the Lusaka skyline and the historic heart...

Submission by Carola Mostert It is an architectural masterpiece. To join the conversation, please leave a comment or click on this link...

Submission by Dr Piero Valabrega The Nabemba tower in Brazzaville, as a remarkable example of modernist architecture, including African...

Submission by Tom Jelpke I have three that I love, though if pressed my favourite would be the Ouagadougou Cathedral :) Kenyatta...

Manful and Gallagher contribute to Architectural Guide to Sub-Saharan Architecture The seven-volume guide, edited by Philipp Meuser and...

Submission by Aicha Belkadi I nominate l''aero-habitat in Algiers (Algeria). I wanted a building located in Algeria and I chose this one...

Submission by Yussuf Hamad Zanzibar’s House Wonders ( This is a historic building with very fascinating history and architecture . It is...

Submission by Andrea Cornwall National Arts Theatre Lagos. I love it as it is such a beautiful building and a monument to Black arts,...

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

Joanne Tomkinson, post-doctoral researcher on the ASA project, has signed contract with Oxford University Press (OUP) to publish her book...

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

The African State Architecture project has started its search for ‘Africa’s favourite building’ asking members of the public to nominate...

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

Date: 16 September 2020 Time: 10am - 5pm Our webinar, ‘Architecture and Politics in Africa: making, living and imagining identities...

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

Julia Gallagher’s latest book, Zimbabwe’s International Relations: fantasy, reality and the making of the state, has just been released...

The ASA team is putting on a double panel at the British International Studies Association annual conference 17-19 June 2020. The panel...

This book reconceptualises the idea of the state in Ethiopia. It focuses on the cultural and political processes of state formation, and...

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