Architecture and Politics in Africa – Making, Living and Imagining Identities through Buildings: Making & Remaking the African City: Studies in Urban Africa

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 Bibliography Index