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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
Topics
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Frontmatter
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CONTENTS
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List of Illustrations
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Notes on Contributors
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Acknowledgements
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List of Abbreviations
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Introduction: Buildings are the stuff of politics
1 - PART 1 MAKING
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1. Global ambitions and national identity in Ethiopia’s airport expansion
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2. Building heaven on earth: Political rhetoric and ritual over Ghana’s national cathedral
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3. China’s ‘parliament building gift’ to Malawi: Exploring its rationale, tensions and asymmetrical gains
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4. New homes for a new state: Foreign ideas in Ghana’s public housing programmes
73 - PART 2 LIVING
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5. Beautiful state/ugly state: Architecture and political authority in Côte d’Ivoire
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6. Colonial legacies in architectures of consumption: The case of Sam Levy’s Village in Harare
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7. Public spaces? Public goods? Reinventing Nairobi’s public libraries
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8. The role of architecture in South African detention cases during the apartheid era
151 - PART 3 IMAGINING
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9. Pan-African imaginations: The African Union headquarters and its popular imagery in Ethiopia and Nigeria
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10. Asantean noumena: The politics and imaginary reconstruction of the Asante Palace, Kumase
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11. From prison to freedom: Overwriting the past, imagining Nigeria
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Afterword: Theorising the politics of unformal(ised) architectures
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Bibliography
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Index
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Publishing information
Pages and Images/Illustrations in book
eBook published on:
September 6, 2022
eBook ISBN:
9781800105638
Pages and Images/Illustrations in book
Main content:
294
Other:
3 b/w, 35 illus.