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

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

Gallagher, Mpere and N’djoré’s article on architectural aesthetics and statehood in Ghana and Côte d’Ivoire has just been published in...

As the ASA project reaches its half-way mark, the team has produced a short film about its research activities. The film explores the...

Researchers, architects and students from Cote d’Ivoire, Ethiopia, France, Ghana, Germany, Switzerland the UK and US attended ASA’s...

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

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

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....

1989 Reputed to be the largest Catholic church in the world, the Basilica dominates Yamoussoukro, Côte d’Ivoire’s modest administrative...