Architecture and Politics in Africa (EPUB) von Joanne Tomkinson

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.

Introduction: Buildings are the stuff of politicsDaniel Mulugeta, Joanne Tomkinson and Julia GallagherPART 1: MAKING1. Global ambitions and national identity in Ethiopia's airport expansionJoanne Tomkinson and Dawit Yekoyesew2. Building heaven on earth: Political rhetoric and ritual over Ghana's national cathedralEmmanuel K. Ofori-Sarpong3. China's 'parliament building gift' to Malawi: Exploring its rationale, tensions and asymmetrical gainsInnocent Batsani-Ncube4. New homes for a new state: Foreign ideas in Ghana's public housing programmesIrene Appeaning AddoPART 2: LIVING5. Beautiful state/ugly state: Architecture and political authority in Côte d'IvoireJulia Gallagher and Yah Ariane Bernadette N'djoré6. Colonial legacies in architectures of consumption: The case of Sam Levy's village in HarareTonderai Koschke7. Public spaces? Public goods? Reinventing Nairobi's public librariesMarie Gibert8. The role of architecture in South African detention cases during the apartheid eraYusuf PatelPART 3: IMAGINING9. Pan-African imaginations: The AU building and its popular imagery in Ethiopia and NigeriaDaniel Mulugeta10. Asantean Noumena: The politics and imaginary reconstruction of the Asante Palace, KumaseTony Yeboah11. From prison to freedom: Overwriting the past, imagining NigeriaLaura RoutleyAfterword: Theorising the politics of unformal(ised) architecturesKuukuwa ManfulBibliographyIndex