New article on Francophone Africa and international recognition
The ASA team’s latest article, ‘Speaking proper French’: citizen bids for state recognition in Chad and Côte d’Ivoire, is out now and...
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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...
Jan 24, 2023
China initiates strategy to influence African parliaments
By Innocent B. Ncube The People’s Republic of China has fully financed the construction of at least 15 new African parliamentary...
Jan 10, 2023
Invented modernisms
Julia Gallagher, Kuukuwa Manful and Innocent Batsani-Ncube Modernist architecture has had a complicated time embodying the post-colonial...
Jul 14, 2022
‘Invented modernisms’: New article from the ASA team
Kuukuwa Manful, Innocent Batsani-Ncube and Julia Gallagher have published a new article about modernism and political architecture in...
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...
Jul 8, 2022
The A.I.R. Club - Research with African Adolescents
By Kuukuwa O Manful In my recently published article titled “Research with African adolescents: Critical Epistemologies and...
May 30, 2022
Making sense of the state: citizens and state buildings in South Africa
Trying to understand how states are put together, I’ve been looking at them as physical entities, as bodies. This means exploring state...
Aug 6, 2021
State aesthetics and state meanings: political architecture in Ghana and Côte d’Ivoire
by Julia Gallagher Is it possible to explain what states mean and how state-society relationships work by looking at and talking about...
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...
Apr 19, 2021
Notes on the ‘Africa’s Favourite Building’ submissions.
By Sunil Pun On October 2020, ASA project put forth a call for nominations for Africa’s favourite building. Since then, we have received...
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 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...
Mar 13, 2020
Who owns the Zimbabwean Parliament building?
by Innocent Batsani Ncube Parliament building in Harare, Zimbabwe seen from Nelson Mandela Avenue One of the most enduring legends in...
Jan 20, 2020
ASA exhibition on state architecture in South Africa
State-ments, an exhibition that draws on Julia Gallagher’s research on popular ideas of state buildings, has just finished a tour of five...
Aug 23, 2019
Building Bureaucracies in west Africa by Julia Gallagher
Amos Rapaport says that it’s possible to read politics through the ‘non-verbal cues’ offered by buildings: their position in the city,...
Jun 24, 2019
Properly African: properly a state by Julia Gallagher
South Africans, like other post-colonial societies, face the dilemma of how to replace and yet also reproduce the state. The difficulty...
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...
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