Architecture and Politics in Africa : : Making, Living and Imagining Identities Through Buildings.

• Superior document: Making and Remaking the African City: Studies in Urban Africa Series ; v.1
• Author: Tomkinson, Joanne.
• TeilnehmendeR: Mulugeta, Daniel.; Gallagher, Julia.; Yekoyesew, Dawit.; Ofori-Sarpong, Emmanuel K.; Ncube, Innocent Batsani.; Addo, Irene Appeaning.; Gibert, Marie.; Patel, Yusuf.; Yeboah, Tony.
• Place / Publishing House: Woodbridge : : Boydell & Brewer, Limited,, 2022.; ©2022.
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Making and Remaking the African City: Studies in Urban Africa Series
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (294 pages)

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.

Table of Contents

Front cover -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Notes on Contributors -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- Introduction: Buildings are the stuff of politics -- PART 1 MAKING -- 1: Global ambitions and national identity in Ethiopia's airport expansion -- 2: Building heaven on earth: Political rhetoric and ritual over Ghana's national cathedral -- 3: China's 'parliament building gift' to Malawi -- 4: Foreign ideas in Ghana's public housing programmes -- PART 2 LIVING -- 5: Beautiful state/ugly state: Architecture and political authority in Côte d'Ivoire -- 6: Colonial legacies in architectures of consumption: The case of Sam Levy's Village in Harare -- 7: Public spaces? Public goods? Reinventing Nairobi's public libraries -- 8: The role of architecture in South African detention cases during the apartheid era -- PART 3 IMAGINING -- 9: The African Union headquarters and its popular imagery in Ethiopia and Nigeria -- 10: The politics and imaginary reconstruction of the Asante Palace, Kumase -- 11: From prison to freedom: Overwriting the past, imagining Nigeria -- Afterword: Theorising the politics of unformal(ised) architectures -- Bibliography -- Index.