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Invented modernisms: getting to grips with modernity in three African state buildings (2022)
Journal Article
Manful, K. O., Batsani-Ncube, I., & Gallagher, J. (2022). Invented modernisms: getting to grips with modernity in three African state buildings. Curator: The Museum Journal, 65(3), 569-589. https://doi.org/10.1111/cura.12505

This article examines recent attempts to create specifically African forms of modernist political architecture that draw on ‘traditional’ or ‘pre-colonial’ aesthetic forms and ideas. Taking examples of three prestigious structures – the presidential... Read More about Invented modernisms: getting to grips with modernity in three African state buildings.

Research with African Adolescents: Critical Epistemologies and Methodological Considerations (2022)
Journal Article
Manful, K. (2022). Research with African Adolescents: Critical Epistemologies and Methodological Considerations. African Affairs, 121(484), 467-485. https://doi.org/10.1093/afraf/adac020

Whereas much research with adolescents in Africa engages them mainly with respect to issues limited and explicitly related to youth, this research note makes epistemic and methodological arguments for engaging adolescents more broadly in our research... Read More about Research with African Adolescents: Critical Epistemologies and Methodological Considerations.