Writing
SELECTED WRITING
books
Building African Futures: 10 Manifestos for Transformative Architecture and Urbanism, edited by Kuukuwa Manful, Emmanuel Ofori-Sarpong, Julia Gallagher, Iwalewa Books, 2023
academic articles
Building blocks of soft power: a sociopolitical history of Western schools in Ghana, in Third World Quarterly, 2025
Building Classes: Secondary Schools and Sociopolitical Stratification in Ghana, in African Studies Review, 2025
Social Class, Kingsway Stores, Archival Fictions, in Architecture, Empire, and Trade, Bloomsbury, 2025
Buildings for Higher Education in Africa, in Docomomo Journal, 2023
Research with African adolescents: critical epistemologies and methodological considerations, in African Affairs, 2022
Invented Modernisms: Getting to Grips with Modernity in Three African State Buildings, in Curator: The Museum Journal, 2022
Afterword: Theorising the politics of unformal(ised) architectures, In Architecture and Politics in Africa: Making, living and imagining identities through buildings, James Currey, 2022.
Precolonial Architecture of Ghana
In Sub-Saharan Africa: Architectural Guide, DOM Publishers, 2021
Innovation potentials for construction materials with specific focus on the challenges in Africa in RILEM Technical Letters, 2020
Objects of Study: A Response to Don’t Touch My Hair by Emma Dabiri In Journal of African Cultural Studies, 2020
In the Shadows of Tropical Modernism: Legacies of Early Ghanaian Architects, In DOCOMOMO Conference Proceedings, 2016
public scholarship and creative writing
Brutality made concrete: Tropical Modernism at the Venice Architecture Biennale and the V&A in The Architecture Review, 2024
Postbox Ghana, in Aperture, Fall 2023
Venice architecture biennale: how pioneering Ghanaian architects reckoned with tropical modernism, in The Conversation, 2023
On Becoming Undisciplined: A Meditation on Unbounded Architecture. in the Catalogue of the Biennale Architettura 2023, The Laboratory of the Future.
On the (Un)formalization of Architectural Design in Ghana, in Allegories of the Visible for Triennial of Photography Hamburg, 2022
Whose Style? Taste, Class, And Power In Accra’s Architecture, In The Metropole, 2019
Ghana child slavery: When seeking context overlooks harm, In Al Jazeera, 2019
Essay on Ibrahim Mahama, in Ghana Freedom: Ghana Pavilion at the 58th International Art Exhibition La Biennale di Venezia, 2019
The Omanjor Reading Project, in narratives, 2018
to the Kuukuwa across the street
2 poems (men like you + a desperate searching), in Tampered Press
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