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

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, creative and other

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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