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...
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May 5, 2022
New article on Ethiopian architecture and history
The article explores how Ethiopia’s state history is told through buildings. It discusses the ways ancient architecture describes key...
May 5, 2022
Call for participants: Reimagining African Futures through Transformative Urbanism and Architecture
Reimagining African Futures through Transformative Urbanism and Architecture A Symposium for Practitioners organised by the African State...
Apr 25, 2022
Kuukuwa Manful speaks to BBC World about her project to preserve Ghana's history
Kuukuwa has been leading a project to digitise important historical archives in Accra Ghana. These detail the capital's history of...
Apr 23, 2022
Listen to Julia Gallagher talk about her African architecture project on BBC's Start the Week
Listen to Julia Gallagher talk about her African architecture project on BBC's Start the Week Julia appears with novelist NoViolet...
Apr 11, 2022
Julia Gallagher to appear on BBC Radio's Start the Week
Julia will join the author NoViolet Bulawayo and journalist Dipo Faloyin on a programme exploring depictions of Africa. The programme...
Mar 14, 2022
Innocent Batsani-Ncube joins SOAS as Usawa Post-Doctoral Fellow.
Innocent Batsani-Ncube, previously ASA doctoral student, joins the Usawa Postdoctoral Fellow at SOAS, Politics and International Studies...
Mar 14, 2022
Video | State aesthetics and state meanings: Political architecture in Ghana and Côte d’Ivoire
Julia Gallagher talks to Innocent Batsani-Ncube about 'State aesthetics and state meanings: Political architecture in Ghana and Côte...
Mar 8, 2022
ASA team to present work at BISA conference
Julia Gallagher, Daniel Mulugeta and Innocent Batsani-Ncube will present work at the next British International Studies Association...
Mar 4, 2022
Deadline extended - Architecture and IR: call for papers for Accra workshop
The call for papers - Architecture and IR, deadline has been extended to Tuesday 15 March 2022. The conference will be held at Accra from...
Feb 7, 2022
Architecture and IR: call for papers for Accra workshop
Architecture in Africa’s International Relations Workshop organised by the Institute for African Studies, University of Ghana, the...
Dec 9, 2021
Pan-Africanism: the quest for autonomy in the ages of empire and globalisation
Daniel Mulugeta will give a paper on his work at the John & Elnora Ferguson Centre for African Studies, University of Bradford on...
Nov 26, 2021
Batsani-Ncube conducts archival research on African sport governance architecture in Switzerland.
ASA Doctoral Researcher, Innocent Batsani-Ncube recently conducted a week-long archival research on the Confederation of African Football...
Nov 15, 2021
Batsani-Ncube’s book review article published.
Innocent Batsani-Ncube’s review of Jonathan Moyo’s book, “EXCELGATE: how Zimbabwe’s 2018 Presidential election was stolen”, has just been...
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...
Oct 19, 2021
Julia Gallagher joined Peace Medie and Simukai Chigudu at the Cheltenham Literary Festival
Julia Gallagher joined Peace Medie (Bristol) and Simukai Chigudu (Oxford) for a panel session on Africa: the next ten years at the...
Sep 17, 2021
Manful at The 16th International Docomomo Conference
Kuukuwa Manful, ASA Doctoral Researcher, is presenting her research at the 16th International Docomomo Conference – Tokyo, Japan 2020+1....
Sep 17, 2021
Manful receives SOAS impact and knowledge exchange funding
Kuukuwa Manful, ASA Doctoral Researcher, has received funding from The SOAS Impact and Knowledge Exchange Fund (IKE) to produce digital...
Aug 27, 2021
Julia Gallagher to speak at The Times and The Sunday Times Cheltenham Literature Festival.
Julia Gallagher will speak at The Times and The Sunday Times Cheltenham Literature Festival on a panel with Simukai Chigudu, Associate...
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...
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