Video: ‘Building African Futures’ at the 2023 Venice Biennale

Buildings shape politics, articulating power relations in the ways they are designed, constructed and used. Africa's public buildings - parliaments, ministries, presidential palaces, courthouses, public records offices, police stations - reflect the complexity and ambiguity of politics in different States. Researchers and scholars working on this multi-layered research project examine in a panel discussion the interaction of citizens with state buildings, focusing in particular on Côte d'Ivoire, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Ethiopia, Ghana, South Africa and Zimbabwe.

Speakers: Kuukuwa Manful (moderator), Julia Gallagher, Emmanuel Ofori-Sarpong, Olufèmi Hinson Yovo, Fiona Nyadero