“Invented Modernism: Getting to Grips with Modernity in Three African State Buildings” by Manful, Batsani-Ncube & Gallagher, was recognised as one of the top read articles in the first year of publication by Wiley.

"Building Africa" tells compelling stories about political institutions and identities across the continent, using architectural landmarks such as presidential palaces, courts, parliaments, schools, sports stadiums, airports, and the African Union building.

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…

Panel discussion about the interaction of citizens with state buildings at the 2023 Venice Architecture Biennale curated by Prof Lesley Lokko.

Kuukuwa Manful has won the 2023 African Studies Association Graduate Student Paper Prize for her article titled “Building Classes: Secondary Schools and Sociopolitical Stratification in Ghana”

“Architect and academic Kuukuwa Manful explains the history of rammed earth and how European colonial authorities discouraged indigenous African building styles.”

Kuukuwa Manful joined Taubman College as an assistant professor of architecture in the fall of 2023, but her connection to the college goes back much further. As a student at Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) in Kumasi, Ghana, she came to Taubman College in 2008 as part of the UM-KNUST West African Design Studio Exchange — StudioAFRICA. Soon, Professor Manful will be starting a new chapter in the legacy that the program began.

As scholars, practitioners and visitors from around the world turn to architecture on the African continent, they must be careful not to treat it as a blank slate in the way previous generations did. Africans have been creating, studying, teaching, and documenting architecture in Africa since time immemorial. Their work matters.

In this paper, I discuss the formalisation, regulation and bureaucratic control of architecture and the people who build in the Gold Coast and Ghana through a concept that I term unformalisation.

Kuukuwa Manful was awarded the Scott Opler Graduate Scholar Fellowship to deliver a paper at the Society of Architectural Historians' 76th Annual International Conference in in Montréal, Canada, April 12–15, 2023.

“Ghanaian architect, Kuukuwa Manful, hopes her work re-evaluate the discourse and study of African architecture…”

Kuukuwa Manful is undertaking a project to digitise one of Ghana's archive stores that mostly contains old planning permissions and blueprints.