Malawi

Feb 16, 2023

Modern parliamentary facilities enhance work of African legislatures

China has been donating parliament buildings to African countries that do not yet have purpose-built facilities of their own. However, to...

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...

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...

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...

Aug 27, 2019

Ncube to present at ASAA in Nairobi

Innocent Batsani Ncube will attend the African Studies Association of Africa (ASAA) Third International Biennial Conference 2019. The...

Jan 5, 2019

Mandala House

Mandala House[1], constructed in 1882, was the first western-style building in Malawi and illustrates the classical role of commercial...

Jan 4, 2019

‘Masongola’ The Old Residency

The Old Residency [1] is called Masongola by locals because of its hexagonal towers with window slits at either end of the super...

Jan 3, 2019

Old Parliament Building, Zomba

The Old Parliament building in Zomba, designed by Ross McKenzie, van Heerden and Hartford, constructed by Messrs. Angelo Gouveia and...

Jan 2, 2019

Press Corporation Limited (PCL) House

The massive, modern headquarters of Malawi’s biggest private sector company, the Press Corporation Limited (Press) sits at Top Mandala...

Jan 1, 2019

New Parliament Building, Lilongwe

The new parliament building in Lilongwe lies at the intersection of Procession drive and Presidential way and is one of the major...