Video: ‘Building the nation and constructing class: the architecture of education in Ghana’ at SOAS, University of London

In this talk, Kuukuwa puts forward the construction of social class hierarchies as an ironic and unexpected outcome of the post-independence nation-building in Ghana under the nation’s socialist president, Kwame Nkrumah. It is drawn from her ongoing book project ‘The Architecture of Education’, which is an account of the making of and belonging in modern Ghana told through the lens of sociopolitical and physical architecture of schools and foregrounding numerous overlooked and diminished actors, sources, and accounts.