Kuukuwa Manful, Ph.D., assistant professor of architecture at Taubman College, has been awarded a grant from UCLA’s Modern Endangered Archives Program (MEAP) for her project to digitize architecture archives in Ghana.

This article argues that the "soft" power of Western education in Ghana is undergirded by historical hard power, exercised through and reinforced by the architecture of schools.

This article - based on an African Studies Association Graduate Student Paper award-winning paper - establishes and investigates connections between the physical & sociopolitical architecture of school buildings and social class/ status in Ghana.