Here’s a taste of Building Africa, on at the Bioscope, 18.00 on Wednesday 28 August and Soweto Theatre at 15.00 on Thursday 29 August....

The ASA documentary film, Building Africa, will be shown in two special screenings at the Bioscope Cinema in Johannesburg and the Soweto...

Innocent Batsani-Ncube has been awarded the prestigious 2024 Best Thesis Award by the African Studies Association UK  for his PhD thesis,...

Over the last three months, the ASA project has hosted a series of exciting talks about the politics of architecture. Some of these are...

The Building Africa exhibition film is now available to watch on YouTube. The film tells stories about how buildings describe and shape...

We warmly invite you to our closing event on Friday 8 March 2024. This event is a chance to learn more about how the Building Africa...

Building Africa is delighted to announce the seventh and final event in its speaker series. Entitled Building the nation and constructing...

Building Africa is delighted to announce the sixth of its speaker events, ‘Not Soft, not Sharp’: the subtext of China’s subtle power...

Building Africa is delighted to announce the fifth of its speaker events, ‘The architecture of colonial imprisonment: The afterlives of...

We warmly invite you to our closing event on Friday 8 March 2024. This event is a chance to learn more about how the Building Africa...

Building Africa’s fourth speaker event is on Thursday 22 February. The talk, ‘Building-States: political authority and architecture in...

Building Africa is delighted to announce the third of its speaker events, ‘Aesthetics of “prosperity”, the Megaprojects of Addis Ababa’,...

Entry is free. Register here. The languages of contemporary architecture in Sub-Saharan Africa: 1960-2020 Why talk about languages?...

The ASA team’s latest article, ‘Speaking proper French’: citizen bids for state recognition in Chad and Côte d’Ivoire, is out now and...

There will be a free guided tour of the Building Africa exhibition on Thursday 1 February at 5.30pm, with Julia Gallagher, one of the...

Building Africa is delighted to announce the second of its speaker events, ‘The languages of contemporary architecture in Sub-Saharan...

The ASA team’s book, Building African Futures: 10 Manifestos for Transformative Architecture and Urbanism, was launched at the Venice...

Building Africa is delighted to announce the first of its speaker events, ‘Out of Africa: Built-in security for outsiders on Lamu...

We are in the final stages of setting up our exhibition for the launch next week. The exhibition brings together installations created in...

Building Africa explores the relationship between architecture and politics. It tells stories about presidential palaces, courts,...