Architecture and Power in Africa

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Nnamdi Elleh

Book Code: C7679

ISBN: 0-275-97679-3

ISBN-13: 978-0-275-97679-8

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200 pages, map, photos

Praeger Publishers

Publication: 12/30/2002

List Price: $98.95 (UK Sterling Price: £57.95)

Availability: Print on demand

Media Type: Hardcover

Also Available: Ebook

Trim Size: 6 1/8 x 9 1/4

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Elleh has chosen a provacative topic and this ambitious but highly readable book raises serious questions. It places architecture at the center of debates about culture, power, religion, and politics. Whether one agrees with Elleh or not, he is treading into new territory here. He is not responding to the canon, he is writing it.
—International Journal of African Historical Studies 2003

Endorsement From Gwendolyn Wright
Professor, Graduate School of Architecture
Columbia University: probes the multiple meanings of two huge and potent "icons of crisis." Elleh's analysis brings together issues of statecraft, indigenous symbolism, religious experience, and individual hubris.

Description: Two of the most ambitious religious edifices of the 20th century are the Our Lady of Peace Basilica in the West African country of the Ivory Coast and the Hassan II Mosque in Morocco. Nnamdi Elleh not only provides a substantial architectural and pictorial analysis of the buildings themselves. Using these two buildings as case studies, he also investigates questions of national memory, urban form, architectural styles, concepts of democracy, social hierarchies as well as the elites who make the decisions to build Africa's post-independence monuments and capital cities. His book is an exciting synthesis of theoretical and empirical analysis that is bound to stimulate debate about the form and content of post-colonial identities in Africa.

LC Card Number: 2002028763

LCC Class: NA1580

Dewey Class: 720


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