Ethiopia’s ‘invisible’ state
Julia Gallagher will give a talk at the University of Addis Ababa on 8 May 2023. The talk is called ‘The invisible state? How Ethiopians...
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Apr 24, 2023
Building Africa Exhibition
The ASA exhibition Building Africa is on from this Saturday in Addis Ababa. The exhibition has been designed by Ethiopian designer and...
Jul 11, 2022
Video | Pan-Africanism and the Affective Charges of African Union Building in Addis Ababa
Daniel Mulugeta talks about his article 'Pan-Africanism and the Affective Charges of the African Union Building in Addis Ababa'. Link to...
Nov 26, 2021
Batsani-Ncube conducts archival research on African sport governance architecture in Switzerland.
ASA Doctoral Researcher, Innocent Batsani-Ncube recently conducted a week-long archival research on the Confederation of African Football...
Oct 22, 2021
New book on Politics and Architecture
The ASA team is delighted to have signed a contract with James Currey for a new book, Architecture and Politics in Africa: making, living...
Jul 9, 2021
Pan-Africanism and the Affective Charges of the African Union Building in Addis Ababa
by Daniel Mulugeta The African Union Commission (AUC) headquarters, which includes a conference centre and a 20-story office complex, is...
Mar 17, 2021
New book from Joanne Tomkinson
Joanne Tomkinson, post-doctoral researcher on the ASA project, has signed contract with Oxford University Press (OUP) to publish her book...
Feb 22, 2021
Architecture and Politics in Africa
As the ASA project reaches its half-way mark, the team has produced a short film about its research activities. The film explores the...
Oct 13, 2020
[Video] Architecture and politics in Africa: making, living & imagining identities through buildings
Researchers, architects and students from Cote d’Ivoire, Ethiopia, France, Ghana, Germany, Switzerland the UK and US attended ASA’s...
Jun 17, 2020
Jun 11, 2020
State-building in Ethiopia: tracing the state through architectural continuity and disruption
by Atnatewos Melake-Selam, Daniel Mulugeta, Joanne Tomkinson and Julia Gallagher The story of Ethiopia’s state has been told through...
Apr 9, 2020
Dependence in the age of coronavirus: how a global pandemic is unsettling African buildings
By Dr Joanne Tomkinson In February 2020, I was conducting research in Ethiopia for the African State Architecture (ASA) project. My area...
Feb 14, 2020
ASA Post-doctoral researcher Daniel Mulugeta publishes a book 'The Everyday State in Africa'.
This book reconceptualises the idea of the state in Ethiopia. It focuses on the cultural and political processes of state formation, and...
Nov 22, 2019
Daniel Mulugeta Gebrie article published in the Journal of Critical African Studies.
Daniel Mulugeta has published an article, 'Everyday conceptions of the state in Ethiopia: corruption discourses, moral idioms and the...
Oct 28, 2019
Gallagher appointed specialist advisor to Parliamentary Inquiry
Julia Gallagher has been appointed as specialist advisor for a UK inquiry into UK-Africa relations being carried out by the UK House of...
Oct 15, 2019
Daniel Mulugeta's new article on state-society relations in Ethiopia
Daniel Mulugeta has published an article, 'Dynamics of state-society relations in Ethiopia: paradoxes of community empowerment and...
Aug 27, 2019
Daniel and Gallagher to present at ASA in Boston
Daniel Mulugeta Gebrie and Julia Gallagher will present papers at the annual Africa Studies Association Conference in November 2019 in...
Jun 14, 2019
Visualising Ethiopia’s airports from past to present by Joanne Tomlinson
Ethiopia’s Bole International Airport, located in capital Addis Ababa, has been markedly expanded in the last few years. It is now home...
Dec 2, 2018
The Obelisks of Axum, Ethiopia
4th Century Axum was the one of the earliest capitals of the Ethiopian polity. The Axumite Kingdom is believed to have extended from the...
Dec 1, 2018
The rock-hewn churches of Lalibela, Ethiopia
12th Century Lalibela (previously known as Roha) is a small town in north-central Ethiopia. It was the capital of the Zagwe dynasty,...
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