We are offering two fully-funded PhD studentships as part of the project Understanding Statehood through Architecture: a comparative...

16th century Historically, there were several kingdoms, states, empires, and polities in and extending into the geographical area that...

1822 The Aban, also referred to as The Palace of Culture, was a grand building constructed to display the wealth, gifts and military...

1897 During the British colonial campaign in Ghana, several of the great buildings of Ghana-based empires and kingdoms were destroyed. In...

1961 Independence-era architecture in Ghana marked a break with traditional British forms and coincided with the modernist movement in...

TBC In recent times, state architecture projects in Ghana have usually been funded, designed and constructed by foreign countries such as...

The European Research Council has awarded a consolidator grant to Prof Julia Gallagher for her project, Understanding Statehood through...