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