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Architecture and Politics in Africa

Making, Living and Imagining Identities through Buildings
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Language: English
Published/Copyright: 2022

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    Frontmatter

    i
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    CONTENTS

    v
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    List of Illustrations

    vii
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    Notes on Contributors

    ix
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    Acknowledgements

    xii
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    List of Abbreviations

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    Introduction: Buildings are the stuff of politics

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    Daniel Mulugeta, Joanne Tomkinson and Julia Gallagher
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  • PART 1 MAKING
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    1. Global ambitions and national identity in Ethiopia’s airport expansion

    15
    Joanne Tomkinson and Dawit Yekoyesew
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    2. Building heaven on earth: Political rhetoric and ritual over Ghana’s national cathedral

    36
    Emmanuel K. Ofori-Sarpong
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    3. China’s ‘parliament building gift’ to Malawi: Exploring its rationale, tensions and asymmetrical gains

    54
    Innocent Batsani-Ncube
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    4. New homes for a new state: Foreign ideas in Ghana’s public housing programmes

    73
    Irene Appeaning Addo
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  • PART 2 LIVING
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    5. Beautiful state/ugly state: Architecture and political authority in Côte d’Ivoire

    93
    Julia Gallagher and Yah Ariane Bernadette N’djoré
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    6. Colonial legacies in architectures of consumption: The case of Sam Levy’s Village in Harare

    114
    Tonderai Koschke
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    7. Public spaces? Public goods? Reinventing Nairobi’s public libraries

    133
    Marie Gibert
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    8. The role of architecture in South African detention cases during the apartheid era

    151
    Yusuf Patel
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  • PART 3 IMAGINING
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    9. Pan-African imaginations: The African Union headquarters and its popular imagery in Ethiopia and Nigeria

    171
    Daniel Mulugeta
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    10. Asantean noumena: The politics and imaginary reconstruction of the Asante Palace, Kumase

    191
    Tony Yeboah
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    11. From prison to freedom: Overwriting the past, imagining Nigeria

    210
    Laura Routley
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    Afterword: Theorising the politics of unformal(ised) architectures

    229
    Kuukuwa Manful
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    Bibliography

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    Index

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September 6, 2022
eBook ISBN:
9781800105638
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294
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3 b/w, 35 illus.
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This book is in the series
Making & Remaking the African City: Studies in Urban
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Politics & Economics; African Studies
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