Architecture and Politics in Africa : Making, Living and Imagining Identities through Buildings /: Making, Living and Imagining Identities through Buildings. (2022)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Joanne Tomkinson, Daniel Mulugeta, Julia Gallagher, Dawit Yekoyesew, Emmanuel K. Ofori-Sarpong, Innocent Batsani Ncube, Irene Appeaning Addo, Julia Gallagher, Joanne Tomkinson, Daniel Mulugeta, Marie Gibert, Yusuf Patel, Tony Yeboah, Laura Routley, Kuukuwa Manful.
• Editors: Tomkinson, Joanne; Dr, Mulugeta, Daniel; Gallagher, Julia
• Other Names: Yekoyesew, Dawit contributor.; Ofori-Sarpong, Emmanuel K contributor.; Ncube, Innocent Batsani contributor.; Addo, Irene Appeaning contributor.; Gallagher, Julia contributor.; Tomkinson, Joanne contributor.; Dr Mulugeta, Daniel contributor.; Gibert, Marie contributor.; Patel, Yusuf contributor.; Yeboah, Tony contributor.; Dr Routley, Laura contributor.; Manful, Kuukuwa contributor.
• Contents: Introduction: Buildings are the stuff of politics; Daniel Mulugeta, Joanne Tomkinson and Julia Gallagher ; PART 1: MAKING; 1. Global ambitions and national identity in Ethiopia's airport expansion; Joanne Tomkinson and Dawit Yekoyesew ; 2. Building heaven on earth: Political rhetoric and ritual over Ghana's national cathedral; Emmanuel K. Ofori-Sarpong ; 3. China's 'parliament building gift' to Malawi: Exploring its rationale, tensions and asymmetrical gains; Innocent Batsani-Ncube ; 4. New homes for a new state: Foreign ideas in Ghana's public housing programmes; Irene Appeaning Addo ; PART 2: LIVING; 5. Beautiful state/ugly state: Architecture and political authority in Côte d'Ivoire; Julia Gallagher and Yah Ariane Bernadette N'djoré ; 6. Colonial legacies in architectures of consumption: The case of Sam Levy's village in Harare; Tonderai Koschke ; 7. Public spaces? Public goods? Reinventing Nairobi's public libraries; Marie Gibert ; 8. The role of architecture in South African detention cases during the apartheid era; Yusuf Patel ; PART 3: IMAGINING; 9. Pan-African imaginations: The AU building and its popular imagery in Ethiopia and Nigeria; Daniel Mulugeta ; 10. Asantean Noumena: The politics and imaginary reconstruction of the Asante Palace, Kumase; Tony Yeboah ; 11. From prison to freedom: Overwriting the past, imagining Nigeria; Laura Routley ; Afterword: Theorising the politics of unformal(ised) architectures; Kuukuwa Manful ; Bibliography; Index
• Publisher Details: Woodbridge : James Currey
• Publication Date: 2022
• Extent: 1 online resource (320 pages)
• Subjects: ARCHITECTURE / General; HISTORY / Africa / General; Politics & government; Urban & municipal planning; Cultural studies
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781800106321; 1800106327
• Access Rights: Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
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