May 5New article on Ethiopian architecture and historyThe article explores how Ethiopia’s state history is told through buildings. It discusses the ways ancient architecture describes key...
May 5Call for participants: Reimagining African Futures through Transformative Urbanism and ArchitectureReimagining African Futures through Transformative Urbanism and Architecture A Symposium for Practitioners organised by the African State...
Apr 25Kuukuwa Manful speaks to BBC World about her project to preserve Ghana's historyKuukuwa has been leading a project to digitise important historical archives in Accra Ghana. These detail the capital's history of...
Apr 23Listen to Julia Gallagher talk about her African architecture project on BBC's Start the WeekListen to Julia Gallagher talk about her African architecture project on BBC's Start the Week Julia appears with novelist NoViolet...
Apr 11Julia Gallagher to appear on BBC Radio's Start the WeekJulia will join the author NoViolet Bulawayo and journalist Dipo Faloyin on a programme exploring depictions of Africa. The programme...
Mar 14Video | State aesthetics and state meanings: Political architecture in Ghana and Côte d’IvoireJulia Gallagher talks to Innocent Batsani-Ncube about 'State aesthetics and state meanings: Political architecture in Ghana and Côte...
Mar 8ASA team to present work at BISA conferenceJulia Gallagher, Daniel Mulugeta and Innocent Batsani-Ncube will present work at the next British International Studies Association...
Feb 7Architecture and IR: call for papers for Accra workshopArchitecture in Africa’s International Relations Workshop organised by the Institute for African Studies, University of Ghana, the...
Dec 9, 2021Pan-Africanism: the quest for autonomy in the ages of empire and globalisationDaniel Mulugeta will give a paper on his work at the John & Elnora Ferguson Centre for African Studies, University of Bradford on...
Nov 26, 2021Batsani-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...
Nov 15, 2021Batsani-Ncube’s book review article published.Innocent Batsani-Ncube’s review of Jonathan Moyo’s book, “EXCELGATE: how Zimbabwe’s 2018 Presidential election was stolen”, has just been...
Oct 22, 2021New book on Politics and ArchitectureThe ASA team is delighted to have signed a contract with James Currey for a new book, Architecture and Politics in Africa: making, living...
Oct 19, 2021Julia Gallagher joined Peace Medie and Simukai Chigudu at the Cheltenham Literary FestivalJulia Gallagher joined Peace Medie (Bristol) and Simukai Chigudu (Oxford) for a panel session on Africa: the next ten years at the...
Sep 17, 2021Manful at The 16th International Docomomo ConferenceKuukuwa Manful, ASA Doctoral Researcher, is presenting her research at the 16th International Docomomo Conference – Tokyo, Japan 2020+1....
Sep 17, 2021Manful receives SOAS impact and knowledge exchange fundingKuukuwa Manful, ASA Doctoral Researcher, has received funding from The SOAS Impact and Knowledge Exchange Fund (IKE) to produce digital...
Aug 27, 2021Julia Gallagher to speak at The Times and The Sunday Times Cheltenham Literature Festival.Julia Gallagher will speak at The Times and The Sunday Times Cheltenham Literature Festival on a panel with Simukai Chigudu, Associate...
Aug 6, 2021State aesthetics and state meanings: political architecture in Ghana and Côte d’Ivoireby Julia Gallagher Is it possible to explain what states mean and how state-society relationships work by looking at and talking about...
Aug 2, 2021New article on architecture in Ghana and Côte d’IvoireGallagher, Mpere and N’djoré’s article on architectural aesthetics and statehood in Ghana and Côte d’Ivoire has just been published in...
Jul 9, 2021Batsani-Ncube to present paper at IPSAASA Doctoral Researcher, Innocent Batsani-Ncube will present a paper at the 2021 IPSA Virtual World Congress on Wednesday 14 July 2021....
Jul 9, 2021Pan-Africanism and the Affective Charges of the African Union Building in Addis Abababy Daniel Mulugeta The African Union Commission (AUC) headquarters, which includes a conference centre and a 20-story office complex, is...