Outputs (14)

Grassroots Pan-Africanism: Border Lives and Transnational Belonging in the Lake Chad Basin (2025)
Journal Article
Mulugeta, D., & Wando, A.-H. (in press). Grassroots Pan-Africanism: Border Lives and Transnational Belonging in the Lake Chad Basin. Journal of Borderlands Studies,

This article explores how grassroots Pan-Africanism is lived and practiced in the Lake Chad Basin (LCB), a region where borders function both as instruments of state control and as conduits for transnational connection. Drawing on interviews across N... Read More about Grassroots Pan-Africanism: Border Lives and Transnational Belonging in the Lake Chad Basin.

Continental pan-Africanism: the first all-African people’s conference and the struggle for Africa’s independence (2025)
Journal Article
Mulugeta, D. (online). Continental pan-Africanism: the first all-African people’s conference and the struggle for Africa’s independence. Critical African Studies, https://doi.org/10.1080/21681392.2024.2443407

The first All-African People's Conference (AAPC), convened in Accra in December 1958, marked a pivotal moment in the quest for African autonomy and solidarity. Led by Kwame Nkrumah and George Padmore, the conference aimed to empower Africa by advocat... Read More about Continental pan-Africanism: the first all-African people’s conference and the struggle for Africa’s independence.

Review of: Charlotte Cross and John D. Giblin (eds) 'Critical Approaches to Heritage for Development' (2024)
Journal Article
Mulugeta, D. (2025). Review of: Charlotte Cross and John D. Giblin (eds) 'Critical Approaches to Heritage for Development'. The Journal of Development Studies, 61(3), 485-487. https://doi.org/10.1080/00220388.2024.2344265

Shifting from crisis response to resilience-building in the Horn of Africa (2024)
Report
Ahmed, B., Asquith, P., Mulugeta, D., Sheekh, N. M., & Woldu, M. (2024). Shifting from crisis response to resilience-building in the Horn of Africa

In recent years, states in the Horn of Africa region have faced unprecedented humanitarian crises, marked by armed conflict, food insecurity, climate change, the loss of livelihoods, and political instability. While the region is no stranger to crise... Read More about Shifting from crisis response to resilience-building in the Horn of Africa.

Review of: Everyday State and Democracy in Africa: Ethnographic Encounters (2023)
Journal Article
Mulugeta, D. (2024). Review of: Everyday State and Democracy in Africa: Ethnographic Encounters. Canadian Journal of African Studies, 58(1), 230-232. https://doi.org/10.1080/00083968.2023.2286794

A History of the Labour Movement in British Colonial Africa: Origins, Organisation, and Struggle (2023)
Other
Mulugeta, D. (2023). A History of the Labour Movement in British Colonial Africa: Origins, Organisation, and Struggle

Architecture and Politics in Africa: Making, living and imagining identities through buildings (2022)
Book
Tomkinson, J., Mulugeta, D., & Gallagher, J. (Eds.). (2022). Architecture and Politics in Africa: Making, living and imagining identities through buildings. James Currey. https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv2x4kp24

Innovative study of state politics, identity and buildings that sheds new light on the links between the material and the ideational realms of contemporary life in Africa. Buildings shape politics in the ways they define communities, enable economic... Read More about Architecture and Politics in Africa: Making, living and imagining identities through buildings.

China's 'parliament building gift' to Malawi: exploring its rationale, tensions and asymmetrical gains (2022)
Book Chapter
Batsani-Ncube, I. (2022). China's 'parliament building gift' to Malawi: exploring its rationale, tensions and asymmetrical gains. In J. Tomkinson, D. Mulugeta, & J. Gallagher (Eds.), Architecture and Politics in Africa: Making, Living and Imagining Identities through Buildings (54-72). James Currey. https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv2x4kp24.11

The histories buildings tell: aesthetic and popular readings of state meaning in Ethiopia (2022)
Journal Article
Gallagher, J., Mulugeta, D., Melake-Selam, A., & Tomkinson, J. (in press). The histories buildings tell: aesthetic and popular readings of state meaning in Ethiopia. Journal of Eastern African Studies, 16(1), 2 -24. https://doi.org/10.1080/17531055.2022.2068234

In this article, we attempt to understand the persistence of the ‘great tradition’ in describing what the state means to Ethiopians. We do this by examining stories about history, told by and about Ethiopia’s architecture. Within these stories we fin... Read More about The histories buildings tell: aesthetic and popular readings of state meaning in Ethiopia.

Pan-Africanism and the Affective Charges of the African Union Building in Addis Ababa (2021)
Journal Article
Mulugeta, D. (in press). Pan-Africanism and the Affective Charges of the African Union Building in Addis Ababa. Journal of African Cultural Studies, 33(4), 521-537. https://doi.org/10.1080/13696815.2021.1884971

In 2002, the African Union (AU) inaugurated its Chinese-funded, designed, built, and furnished headquarters building in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, receiving the admiration of African leaders. The building was hailed as a new material expression of pan-Af... Read More about Pan-Africanism and the Affective Charges of the African Union Building in Addis Ababa.