The Politics of Architecture in Africa Workshop, Paper Presentations, Exhibition 1-8 December 2019. The Politics of Architecture in...

Julia Gallagher has been appointed as specialist advisor for a UK inquiry into UK-Africa relations being carried out by the UK House of...

Daniel Mulugeta has published an article, 'Dynamics of state-society relations in Ethiopia: paradoxes of community empowerment and...

Julia Gallagher contributes to a programme on the economic situation in Zimbabwe for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation. Her...

Daniel Mulugeta Gebrie and Julia Gallagher will present papers at the annual Africa Studies Association Conference in November 2019 in...

Kuukuwa Manful has been awarded a grant by the British Library Endangered Archives Programme for a project entitled 'Building Early...

Innocent Batsani Ncube will attend the African Studies Association of Africa (ASAA) Third International Biennial Conference 2019. The...

Amos Rapaport says that it’s possible to read politics through the ‘non-verbal cues’ offered by buildings: their position in the city,...

ASA has recently become affiliated with the Institute of African Studies, University of Ghana. The relationship will enable mutual...

South Africans, like other post-colonial societies, face the dilemma of how to replace and yet also reproduce the state. The difficulty...

Ethiopia’s Bole International Airport, located in capital Addis Ababa, has been markedly expanded in the last few years. It is now home...

‘Bulawayo has stood tall across the country as a better organised and cleanest city. From garbage collection, road and traffic...

Julia will take part in a workshop on ‘Challenges and opportunities towards a sustainable growth in Africa’s cities’ in September 2019 at...

Members of the ASA team will be attending the Edinburgh’s Centre of African Studies conference which takes place between 11-14 June 2019....

PHD candidate Kuukuwa Manful will be co-convening a panel at the Ghana Studies Association Conference held at the University of Ghana,...

South Africa’s Department for International Relations and Cooperation (DIRCO) seems to hide from Pretoria, crouching behind a hill, with...

We’ve been trialling a new way to engage people in our research – using a clothes horse, a handful of pegs and some photographs of...

1893 - 1966 Grand-Bassam was Côte d’Ivoire’s original colonial capital under French rule, from 1893 to 1966. As Abidjan grew and...

1968 La Pyramide is a dramatic modernist statement and one of the most distinctive features of Abidjan’s Plateau district. It was...

1977-1984 La Cité Administrative comprises five tower blocks that are home to the majority of Côte d’Ivoire’s government departments....