Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS v
3. List of Illustrations vii
4. Notes on Contributors ix
5. Acknowledgements xii
6. List of Abbreviations xiii
7. Introduction: Buildings are the stuff of politics 1
8. PART 1 MAKING
9. 1. Global ambitions and national identity in Ethiopia’s airport expansion 15
10. 2. Building heaven on earth: Political rhetoric and ritual over Ghana’s national cathedral 36
11. 3. China’s ‘parliament building gift’ to Malawi: Exploring its rationale, tensions and asymmetrical gains 54
12. 4. New homes for a new state: Foreign ideas in Ghana’s public housing programmes 73
13. PART 2 LIVING
14. 5. Beautiful state/ugly state: Architecture and political authority in Côte d’Ivoire 93
15. 6. Colonial legacies in architectures of consumption: The case of Sam Levy’s Village in Harare 114
16. 7. Public spaces? Public goods? Reinventing Nairobi’s public libraries 133
17. 8. The role of architecture in South African detention cases during the apartheid era 151
18. PART 3 IMAGINING
19. 9. Pan-African imaginations: The African Union headquarters and its popular imagery in Ethiopia and Nigeria 171
20. 10. Asantean noumena: The politics and imaginary reconstruction of the Asante Palace, Kumase 191
21. 11. From prison to freedom: Overwriting the past, imagining Nigeria 210
22. Afterword: Theorising the politics of unformal(ised) architectures 229
23. Bibliography 246
24. Index 270