Here’s a taste of Building Africa, on at the Bioscope, 18.00 on Wednesday 28 August and Soweto Theatre at 15.00 on Thursday 29 August....

We warmly invite you to our closing event on Friday 8 March 2024. This event is a chance to learn more about how the Building Africa...

Building Africa is delighted to announce the seventh and final event in its speaker series. Entitled Building the nation and constructing...

Building Africa is delighted to announce the sixth of its speaker events, ‘Not Soft, not Sharp’: the subtext of China’s subtle power...

Building Africa is delighted to announce the fifth of its speaker events, ‘The architecture of colonial imprisonment: The afterlives of...

We warmly invite you to our closing event on Friday 8 March 2024. This event is a chance to learn more about how the Building Africa...

Building Africa is delighted to announce the third of its speaker events, ‘Aesthetics of “prosperity”, the Megaprojects of Addis Ababa’,...

Entry is free. Register here. The languages of contemporary architecture in Sub-Saharan Africa: 1960-2020 Why talk about languages?...

There will be a free guided tour of the Building Africa exhibition on Thursday 1 February at 5.30pm, with Julia Gallagher, one of the...

Building Africa is delighted to announce the second of its speaker events, ‘The languages of contemporary architecture in Sub-Saharan...

The ASA team’s book, Building African Futures: 10 Manifestos for Transformative Architecture and Urbanism, was launched at the Venice...

We are in the final stages of setting up our exhibition for the launch next week. The exhibition brings together installations created in...

Building Africa explores the relationship between architecture and politics. It tells stories about presidential palaces, courts,...

A one-day workshop on 11 March 2024 at SOAS University of London. This one-day workshop will explore political architecture in...

Dr Innocent Batsani-Ncube’s article, ‘Whose Building? Tracing the Politics of the Chinese Government-Funded Parliament Building in...

Gallagher talk on Ghana at the Institute of African Studies, University of Ghana The talk is entitled 'The dis/contented state: how...

The Building Africa Exhibition Accra opens on 3 November. The exhibition tells stories about buildings and politics in Ghana. It asks,...

Members of the ASA team will present their most recent book, Building African Futures: 10 Manifestos for Transformative Architecture and...

Kuukuwa Manful and Innocent Batsani-Ncube are leaving SOAS to take up new roles. Kuukuwa becomes an Assistant Professor at the Taubman...

The book had a first launch event at the Venice Biennale on Monday 4 September. Biennale curator Lesley Lokko introduced a panel...