We are looking for two postdoctoral research assistants to work on the project Understanding Statehood through Architecture: a...

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

10th - 13th century Nothing remains of the buildings of this iron age city which sat on the meeting of the Shashe and Limpopo Rivers and...

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

1891 The Ou Raadsaal, or Old Council Hall, was commissioned by the first president of the Boer Transvaal republic, Paul Kruger, and was...

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

1909 - 1913 Designed by Herbert Baker, one of Britain's most famous colonial architects, the Union Building became the seat of South...

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

1960 This police station was originally named after John Vorster, Minister of Justice and then Prime Minister, the man who created many...

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

2004 The Constitutional Court is the home for the body which protects South Africa’s post-apartheid constitution. It was designed by...

The old parliament building was constructed in 1909 for the Basutoland National Council (BNC), a forerunner of Lesotho’s contemporary...

The National University of Lesotho (NUL) campus in Roma was estabished by the Roman Catholic Church as Lesotho’s first tertiary education...

Manthabiseng National Convention Centre, opened in 1997 is the first State building to be funded, constructed and donated to Lesotho by...

Lesotho’s Chinese-funded and constructed parliament building is located on Mpilo Hill in Maseru. Designed by China Northeast...

The European Research Council has awarded a consolidator grant to Prof Julia Gallagher for her project, Understanding Statehood through...