Understanding Statehood through Architecture: a comparative study of Africa's state buildings

Project Information

ASA

Grant agreement ID: 772070

DOI

10.3030/772070

Project closed

EC signature date 6 February 2018

Start date 1 September 2018

End date 31 March 2024

Funded under

• EXCELLENT SCIENCE - European Research Council (ERC)

Total cost

€ 1 870 665,00

EU contribution

€ 1 870 665,00

Coordinated by

SCHOOL OF ORIENTAL AND AFRICAN STUDIES ROYAL CHARTER
United Kingdom

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Publications

Book chapters (3)

Introduction to Ghana

Author(s): Kuukuwa Manful
Published in: Architectural Guide to Sub-Saharan Africa, 2021, ISBN 978-3-86922-400-8
Publisher: DOM

State-house: reading statehood through metaphors of home

Author(s): Julia Gallagher
Published in: Architectural Guide to Sub-Saharan Africa, 2021, ISBN 978-3-86922-400-8
Publisher: DOM

Indigenous Architecture in Precolonial Ghana

Author(s): Kuukuwa Manful
Published in: Architectural Guide to Sub-Saharan Africa, Issue Architectural Guide to Sub-Saharan Africa, 2021, ISBN 978-3-86922-400-8
Publisher: DOM

Peer reviewed articles (11)

The histories buildings tell: aesthetic and popular readings of state meaning in Ethiopia

Author(s): Julia Gallagher, Daniel Mulugeta, Atnatewos Melake-Selam, Joanne Tomkinson
Published in: Journal of Eastern African Studies, 2022, Page(s) 1-23, ISSN 1753-1063
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
DOI: 10.1080/17531055.2022.2068234

Invented Modernisms: Getting to Grips with Modernity in Three African State Buildings

Author(s): Kuukuwa Manful Innocent Batsani-Ncube Julia Gallagher
Published in: Curator: the Museum Journal, Issue 65/3, 2022, Page(s) 569-589, ISSN 2151-6952
Publisher: Wiley
DOI: 10.1111/cura.12505

Purpose-Built Parliament Buildings and the Institutionalisation of Parliament in Lesotho and Malawi

Author(s): Innocent Batsani-Ncube
Published in: Parliamentary Affairs, Issue 5 October 2022, 2022, ISSN 1460-2482
Publisher: Oxford University Press
DOI: 10.1093/pa/gsac017

‘Origination and Africa’s international relations: gatemaking and airport politics in Ethiopia and Ghana’

Author(s): Joanne Tomkinson
Published in: Third World Quarterly, Issue 45/1, 2023, Page(s) 133-150, ISSN 1360-2241
Publisher: Taylor and Francis
DOI: 10.1080/01436597.2023.2213642

China’s ‘subtle ingratiation’ in the Global South: evidence from Zimbabwe

Author(s): Innocent Batsani-Ncube
Published in: Third World Quarterly, Issue 02/2025, 2025, Page(s) 1-19, ISSN 0143-6597
Publisher: Carfax Publishing Ltd.
DOI: 10.1080/01436597.2025.2456831

State Aesthetics and State Meanings: Political Architecture In Ghana And Côte D’ivoire

Author(s): Julia Gallagher; Dennis Larbi Mpere; Yah Ariane Bernadette N'djoré
Published in: 00019909, Issue 1, 2021, Page(s) 333-364, ISSN 0001-9909
Publisher: Oxford University Press
DOI: 10.1093/afraf/adab018

'Speaking proper French': citizen bids for recognition in Chad and Côte d'Ivoire

Author(s): Moudwe Daga Julia Gallagher
Published in: Global Discourse, Issue 14/1, 2024, Page(s) 79–95, ISSN 2043-7897
Publisher: Bristol University Press
DOI: 10.1332/20437897y2023d000000030

Making sense of the state: Citizens and state buildings in South Africa

Author(s): Julia Gallagher
Published in: Political Geography, Issue 98, 2022, ISSN 0962-6298
Publisher: Pergamon Press Ltd.
DOI: 10.1016/j.polgeo.2022.102674

Whose Building? Tracing the Politics of the Chinese Government-Funded Parliament Building in Lesotho

Author(s): Innocent Batsani-Ncube
Published in: Journal of Southern African Studies, Issue 48/5, 2022, Page(s) 883-900, ISSN 1465-3893
Publisher: Taylor and Francis
DOI: 10.1080/03057070.2022.2122385

Pan-Africanism and the Affective Charges of the African Union Building in Addis Ababa

Author(s): Daniel Mulugeta
Published in: 13696815, Issue 1, 2021, Page(s) 521-537, ISSN 1369-6815
Publisher: Carfax Publishing Ltd.
DOI: 10.1080/13696815.2021.1884971

Research with African adolescents: critical epistemologies and methodological considerations

Author(s): Kuukuwa Manful
Published in: African Affairs, 2022, ISSN 1468-2621
Publisher: Oxford University Press
DOI: 10.1093/afraf/adac020

Monographic books (3)

Building African Futures: 10 manifestos for transformative architecture and urbanism

Author(s): Kuukuwa Manful Emmanuel Ofori-Sarpong Julia Gallagher
Published in: 2023, ISBN 978-3-947902-28-6
Publisher: Iwalewa Books

Architecture and Politics in Africa: making, living and imagining identities through buildings

Author(s): Joanne Tomkinson Daniel Mulugeta Julia Gallagher Innocent Batsani-Ncube Kuukuwa Manful
Published in: Making and remaking the African City: studies in urban Africa, 2022, ISBN 9781847013323
Publisher: James Currey

China and African Parliaments

Author(s): Innocent Batsani-Ncube
Published in: 2025, ISBN 9780198922292
Publisher: Oxford University Press