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uplo-9196-e-15-97818001056380301Ubiquity Press15978180010563801internal-reference91960610.1515/9781800105638DGE20100201RUA Series ID1208101Publisher’s corporate websitehttps://uplopen.com02Publisher’s website for a specified workhttps://uplopen.com/books/e/10.1515/97818001056381B01Joanne TomkinsonJoanneTomkinson2B01Daniel MulugetaDanielMulugeta3B01Julia GallagherJuliaGallagher01eng29423User DefinedSocial Sciences23User DefinedPolitical Scences23User DefinedPolitical Science other10POL00000093JP01010302[See book file for description]0202[See book file for description]04Frontmatter CONTENTS List of Illustrations Notes on Contributors Acknowledgements List of Abbreviations Introduction: Buildings are the stuff of politics 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: Exploring its rationale, tensions and asymmetrical gains 4. New homes for a new state: Foreign ideas in Ghana’s public housing programmes 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 9. Pan-African imaginations: The African Union headquarters and its popular imagery in Ethiopia and Nigeria 10. Asantean noumena: 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 Index46http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/47Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs (CC BY-NC-ND)040301https://storage.googleapis.com/rua-uplo/files/media/cover_images/a30dfd2a-aa1c-493b-a1e1-4e24990457c6.jpgBoydell and Brewer01Boydell and Brewer01Publisher’s corporate websitehttps://uplopen.com02Publisher’s website for a specified workhttps://uplopen.com/books/e/10.1515/9781800105638Woodbridge, Suffolk, UK0420220906