Trying to understand how states are put together, I’ve been looking at them as physical entities, as bodies. This means exploring state...

The article explores how Ethiopia’s state history is told through buildings. It discusses the ways ancient architecture describes key...

Reimagining African Futures through Transformative Urbanism and Architecture A Symposium for Practitioners organised by the African State...

Kuukuwa has been leading a project to digitise important historical archives in Accra Ghana. These detail the capital's history of...

Listen to Julia Gallagher talk about her African architecture project on BBC's Start the Week Julia appears with novelist NoViolet...

Julia will join the author NoViolet Bulawayo and journalist Dipo Faloyin on a programme exploring depictions of Africa. The programme...

Innocent Batsani-Ncube, previously ASA doctoral student, joins the Usawa Postdoctoral Fellow at SOAS, Politics and International Studies...

Julia Gallagher talks to Innocent Batsani-Ncube about 'State aesthetics and state meanings: Political architecture in Ghana and Côte...

Julia Gallagher, Daniel Mulugeta and Innocent Batsani-Ncube will present work at the next British International Studies Association...

The call for papers - Architecture and IR, deadline has been extended to Tuesday 15 March 2022. The conference will be held at Accra from...

Architecture in Africa’s International Relations Workshop organised by the Institute for African Studies, University of Ghana, the...

Daniel Mulugeta will give a paper on his work at the John & Elnora Ferguson Centre for African Studies, University of Bradford on...

ASA Doctoral Researcher, Innocent Batsani-Ncube recently conducted a week-long archival research on the Confederation of African Football...

Innocent Batsani-Ncube’s review of Jonathan Moyo’s book, “EXCELGATE: how Zimbabwe’s 2018 Presidential election was stolen”, has just been...

The ASA team is delighted to have signed a contract with James Currey for a new book, Architecture and Politics in Africa: making, living...

Julia Gallagher joined Peace Medie (Bristol) and Simukai Chigudu (Oxford) for a panel session on Africa: the next ten years at the...

Kuukuwa Manful, ASA Doctoral Researcher, is presenting her research at the 16th International Docomomo Conference – Tokyo, Japan 2020+1....

Kuukuwa Manful, ASA Doctoral Researcher, has received funding from The SOAS Impact and Knowledge Exchange Fund (IKE) to produce digital...

Julia Gallagher will speak at The Times and The Sunday Times Cheltenham Literature Festival on a panel with Simukai Chigudu, Associate...

by Julia Gallagher Is it possible to explain what states mean and how state-society relationships work by looking at and talking about...