Centre for Pan African Studies
Kuukuwa Manful
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Key information
- Roles
- Centre for Pan African Studies Research Associate
- Department
- Centre for Pan African Studies
- Email address
- km79@soas.ac.uk
Biography
Kuukuwa Manful (PhD) is a trained architect and researcher who creates, studies, teaches, and documents the history, theories, and politics of architecture in Africa.
She is an Assistant Professor of Architecture at the Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning, University of Michigan. She curates adansisɛm - a Ghanaian architecture documentation collective; runs sociarchi - an architecture non-profit; and is president of Docomomo Accra.
Her design and research have been exhibited at the Brunei Gallery in London and featured in BBC News, Citi Newsroom, The Republic Journal, and Off To Magazine. Her academic publications, creative writing, and public scholarship include a co-edited book titled ‘Building African Futures’ and have appeared in African Affairs, Al Jazeera, Curator: The Museum Journal, and Tampered Press Magazine.
Her current projects include a book about ‘The Architecture of Education in Ghana’ and a study on the ‘History of the Formalisation and Unformalisation of the Architecture Profession in Ghana’ using a collection of endangered archives that she has recently digitised through Accra Archive with a grant from the British Library’s Endangered Archives Programme.
