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Apr 24, 2023
Ethiopia’s ‘invisible’ state
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...


Apr 24, 2023
Building Africa Exhibition
The ASA exhibition Building Africa is on from this Saturday in Addis Ababa. The exhibition has been designed by Ethiopian designer and...


Apr 20, 2023
Building Africa exhibition: Addis Ababa
The African State Architecture’s new exhibition opens in the Addis Ababa Museum, Meskel Square, Addis Ababa on 29 April 2023. The...


Apr 20, 2023
Innocent Batsani-Ncube speaks to VOA about Chinese-built African parliaments
Innocent’s work is featured in Voice of America News in an article by Kate Bartlett called ‘Why China is building Africa’s new...


Feb 16, 2023
Modern parliamentary facilities enhance work of African legislatures
China has been donating parliament buildings to African countries that do not yet have purpose-built facilities of their own. However, to...


Jan 24, 2023
China initiates strategy to influence African parliaments
By Innocent B. Ncube The People’s Republic of China has fully financed the construction of at least 15 new African parliamentary...


Jan 10, 2023
Invented modernisms
Julia Gallagher, Kuukuwa Manful and Innocent Batsani-Ncube Modernist architecture has had a complicated time embodying the post-colonial...


Dec 19, 2022
Reimagining African Futures – ASA workshop
11 young architects, urban planners and policy-makers from eight African countries gathered in Accra in September 2022 to discuss urban...


Dec 19, 2022
Architecture in Africa’s International Relations – ASA workshop
Twenty scholars of architecture and politics in Africa gathered in Accra for ASA’s academic workshop in September 2022. The workshop was...


Nov 1, 2022
Kuukuwa Manful takes up new post-doc position
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...
Oct 14, 2022
Batsani-Ncube published a new article in the Journal of Southern African Studies.
ASA Team member publishes new article on the Parliament building of Lesotho. Batsani-Ncube’s article, ‘Whose Building? Tracing the...
Oct 14, 2022
Video | Tracing the Politics of Chinese Government-Funded Parliament Building in Lesotho
Batsani-Ncube’s talks about his article, ‘Whose Building? Tracing the Politics of the Chinese Government-Funded Parliament Building in...


Sep 1, 2022
Major new book on Architecture and Politics in Africa
The ASA team is delighted to announce the publication of its book, Architecture and Politics in Africa: making, living and imagining...


Aug 22, 2022
Architecture and Politics in Africa: book launch in Accra, 20 September 2022
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...

Jul 14, 2022
‘Invented modernisms’: New article from the ASA team
Kuukuwa Manful, Innocent Batsani-Ncube and Julia Gallagher have published a new article about modernism and political architecture in...


Jul 11, 2022
Video | Pan-Africanism and the Affective Charges of African Union Building in Addis Ababa
Daniel Mulugeta talks about his article 'Pan-Africanism and the Affective Charges of the African Union Building in Addis Ababa'. Link to...
Jul 8, 2022
New article published by Kuukuwa Manful
Kuukuwa’s article, ‘Research with African adolescents: critical epistemologies and methodological considerations’, has just been...


Jul 8, 2022
The A.I.R. Club - Research with African Adolescents
By Kuukuwa O Manful In my recently published article titled “Research with African adolescents: Critical Epistemologies and...


Jun 21, 2022
Daniel Mulugeta awarded UKRI Future Leaders Fellowship
Dr Daniel Mulugeta has been awarded a UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) Future Leaders Fellowship (£1,467,842) for his research project...


May 30, 2022
New article on South Africa’s state architecture
Julia Gallagher’s new article explores how citizens experience the state through seeing and feeling its buildings. She argues that...
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