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Aug 21

Building Africa taster

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....

Aug 20

Building Africa film screenings in South Africa

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

Aug 20

Innocent Batsani-Ncube wins 2024 ASAUK Best Thesis Award

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

Apr 26

Building Africa speaker series – available on YouTube

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

Apr 26

Building Africa exhibition – film available on YouTube

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

Mar 6

Academics and architects creating knowledge together: Building Africa’s curators’ and designers’ roundtable and closing party

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...

Mar 6

Talk on school architecture in Ghana – Kuukuwa Manful

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

Mar 6

Talk on Chinese-built parliaments in Africa – by Innocent Batsani-Ncube

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

Feb 26

The architecture of colonial imprisonment: The afterlives of colonial incarceration in Africa – a talk by Laura Routley

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

Feb 26

Academics and architects creating knowledge together: Building Africa’s curators’ and designers’ roundtable and closing party

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...

Feb 13

‘Building-States: political authority and architecture in Africa’ – public talk by Julia Gallagher

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

Feb 8

Aesthetics of ‘prosperity’: the Megaprojects of Addis Ababa – public talk by Brook Teklehaimanot Haileselassie

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

Feb 5

Reminder: Tomà Berlanda’s talk on ‘The languages of contemporary architecture in Sub-Saharan Africa: 1960-2020’ is this Thursday 8 February at 17.00 in the Brunei Building, SOAS

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

Feb 5

New article on Francophone Africa and international recognition

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

Jan 26

Building Africa - guided tour by one of the curators

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...

Jan 26

The languages of contemporary architecture in Sub-Saharan Africa: 1960-2020 – public talk by Tomà Berlanda

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

Jan 26

ASA Building African Futures book launch – watch online

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

Jan 19

Out of Africa – public talk by Nora Naji

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

Jan 8

Building Africa exhibition opening soon

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

Dec 1, 2023

Building Africa: An exhibition about how architecture shapes politics 11 January – 16 March 2024

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