Ethiopia

Apr 24, 2023

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...

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

Julia Gallagher talks about the project.

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,...