Architecture and politics in Africa making, living and imagining identities through buildings.

• 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. 

• Innovative study of state politics, identity and buildings that sheds new light on the links between the material and the ideational realms of contemporary life in Africa. 

Ämnesord

Architecture  -- Africa, Sub-Saharan. (LCSH)

Africa, Sub-Saharan  -- Politics and government. (LCSH)

Klassifikation

NA1591.65 (LCC)

720.967 (DDC)

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