[Commlist] New book: African Modernism and Its Afterlives

Intellect is pleased to share that /African Modernism and Its Afterlives 
<https://www.intellectbooks.com/african-modernism-and-its-afterlives>/*/,/* edited 
by Nina Berre, Paul Wenzel Geissler and Johan Lagae, is available 
in e-book and paperback.

This edited volume examines the legacy of architecture in a number of 
African countries soon after independence. It has its origins in an 
exhibition and symposium that focused on architecture as an element in 
Nordic countries’ aid packages to newly independent states, but the 
expanded breadth of the essays includes work on other countries and 
architects. Drawing on ethnography, archival research and careful 
observations of buildings, remains and people, the case studies seek to 
connect the colonial and postcolonial origins of modernist architecture, 
the historical processes they underwent, and present use and habitation.

It results from the 2015 seminar and exhibition Forms of Freedom at the 
National Museum of Art, Architecture and Design in Oslo, Norway. The 
exhibition showed how modern Scandinavian architecture became an 
essential component of foreign aid to East Africa in the period 1960–80, 
and how the ideals of the Nordic welfare system found expression in a 
number of construction projects. The seminar broadened the geographic 
scope of the discussion beyond the Scandinavian context, and set the 
ground for bringing together the disciplines of architectural history 
and social anthropology.


*_Table of Contents
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*List of Figures*
*Introduction: *Recognizing African Modernisms – /Paul Wenzel Geissler, 
Johan Lagae and Nina Berre/

*PART 1: AFRICAN MODERNISM
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*1.* Karl Henrik Nøstvik: Remnants of Nordic Aid – /Nina Berre/
*2.* Africa’s ‘Lone Star’: Building ‘New Liberia’ in the Context of 
Post-war Africa – /Iga Perzyna/
*3.* Countryside Reconstruction in Postcolonial Africa: The Ujamaa 
Experience – /Karl Otto Ellefsen/
*4.* Technocratic Colonial Housing Policies and Reductive Modernism in 
Eastlands, Nairobi – /Peter Makachia/
*5.* Transnational Exchanges in Postcolonial Zambia: School Buildings at 
the Intersection of Architectural, Political and Economic Globalization 
– /Kim De Raedt/
*6.* Forms of Freedom: Soviet Gifts in Postcolonial Kenya – /Ruth Prince/
*7.* Georg Lippsmeier and His Tropenbau: Salesmanship and Pragmatic 
Modernism – /Antoni Folkers/
*8.* Israel/Africa: The Laboratories of (Post)colonial Modernity – /Haim 
Yacobi/
*9.* ‘Tout le Congo est un Chantier’: Notes on the Archive of a 
(Post)colonial Construction Firm – /Johan Lagae and Robby Fivez/

*INTERLUDE*

- Remnants of Nordic Aid in Africa: The Zambia World Bank Educational 
Projects – /Mette Tronvoll/
- Remnants of Nordic Aid in Africa: The KICC & Fishery Station by 
Architect Karl Henrik Nøstvik in Africa – /Iwan Baan/

*PART 2: AFTERLIVES
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*10.* ‘Kenya Grew from Here’: Property and History in a Nairobi Housing 
Estate – /Constance Smith/
*11. *Grave Reservations: Nigerian Literature and ‘European 
Reservations’ during Decolonization – /Tim Livsey/
*12.* The Legacy of Nordic Expertise in Postcolonial Housing Schemes in 
Nairobi – /Tom J. C. Anyamba/
*13.* Privatization and the Reshaping of the Recreational Landscape of 
the Industrial Zambian Copperbelt – /Patience Mususa/
*14.* The Ruins of Turkana: An Archaeology of Failed Development in 
Northern Kenya – /Samuel F. Derbyshire and Lucas Lowasa/
*15.* The Brand New Ruins of Public Health: A Tale of Two Buildings, 
Kinshasa, DRC – /Guillaume Lachenal/
*16.* ‘Is This Anthropology Really a Modern Subject?’: Kenyan Students’ 
Experience of Nairobi’s (Changing) University Architectures – /Ida 
Skjong Grøvik/
*17.* Laboratory Unbuilt: An Architectural Biography of Postcolonial 
Science in East Africa – /Paul Wenzel Geissler/

*Epilogue: *Buildings and People: Interdisciplinarity, Juxtaposition and 
Experimentation – /Paul Wenzel Geissler and Johan Lagae/
*Notes on Contributors
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