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...

The ASA exhibition Building Africa is on from this Saturday in Addis Ababa. The exhibition has been designed by Ethiopian designer and...

Daniel Mulugeta talks about his article 'Pan-Africanism and the Affective Charges of the African Union Building in Addis Ababa'. Link to...

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...

by Daniel Mulugeta The African Union Commission (AUC) headquarters, which includes a conference centre and a 20-story office complex, is...

Joanne Tomkinson, post-doctoral researcher on the ASA project, has signed contract with Oxford University Press (OUP) to publish her book...

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...

by Atnatewos Melake-Selam, Daniel Mulugeta, Joanne Tomkinson and Julia Gallagher The story of Ethiopia’s state has been told through...

By Dr Joanne Tomkinson In February 2020, I was conducting research in Ethiopia for the African State Architecture (ASA) project. My area...

This book reconceptualises the idea of the state in Ethiopia. It focuses on the cultural and political processes of state formation, and...

Daniel Mulugeta has published an article, 'Everyday conceptions of the state in Ethiopia: corruption discourses, moral idioms and the...

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 has published an article, 'Dynamics of state-society relations in Ethiopia: paradoxes of community empowerment and...

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

Ethiopia’s Bole International Airport, located in capital Addis Ababa, has been markedly expanded in the last few years. It is now home...

4th Century Axum was the one of the earliest capitals of the Ethiopian polity. The Axumite Kingdom is believed to have extended from the...

12th Century Lalibela (previously known as Roha) is a small town in north-central Ethiopia. It was the capital of the Zagwe dynasty,...