Kuukuwa Manful
@kuukuwa.bsky.social
Architect • Asst Prof • History, Theory, & Politics of Architecture in Africa
Am I writing this book or is it writing me?
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Am I writing this book or is it writing me?
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When you are feeling weary or despairing, remember that there are people in every corner of the world taking life affirming action in the direction of more justice. The fact that you can't see it all is a comfort because it means there is an excess of positive actions happening all at once. #onwards
July 14, 2025 at 1:03 AM
When you are feeling weary or despairing, remember that there are people in every corner of the world taking life affirming action in the direction of more justice. The fact that you can't see it all is a comfort because it means there is an excess of positive actions happening all at once. #onwards
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you've heard about the college kids who can't do anything without ChatGPT's help—but what about the students who oppose generative A.I. for myriad reasons and refuse to rely on it as a shortcut? well, I found and spoke with a few of them here: slate.com/life/2025/07...
What It’s Like to Be a Student Who Hates ChatGPT
“Everyone is using it”—almost everyone.
slate.com
July 15, 2025 at 4:06 PM
you've heard about the college kids who can't do anything without ChatGPT's help—but what about the students who oppose generative A.I. for myriad reasons and refuse to rely on it as a shortcut? well, I found and spoke with a few of them here: slate.com/life/2025/07...
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Next week, I am hosting a workshop in Munich on the decolonization of architectural education.
The workshop will feature a public lecture by architect and curator Nzinga Mboup (Dakar).
22 May at Pavillon 333
Registration is open until the end of the week
www.globaldisconnect.org/03/12/22-may...
The workshop will feature a public lecture by architect and curator Nzinga Mboup (Dakar).
22 May at Pavillon 333
Registration is open until the end of the week
www.globaldisconnect.org/03/12/22-may...
22 May, Bioclimatic design in Senegal: lessons from the École d'Architecture et d'Urbanisme de Dakar and the work of Worofila - global dis:connect
The workshop addresses architectural education, specifically global debates and the historical experience of African schools of architecture.
www.globaldisconnect.org
May 13, 2025 at 2:04 PM
Next week, I am hosting a workshop in Munich on the decolonization of architectural education.
The workshop will feature a public lecture by architect and curator Nzinga Mboup (Dakar).
22 May at Pavillon 333
Registration is open until the end of the week
www.globaldisconnect.org/03/12/22-may...
The workshop will feature a public lecture by architect and curator Nzinga Mboup (Dakar).
22 May at Pavillon 333
Registration is open until the end of the week
www.globaldisconnect.org/03/12/22-may...
In hindsight, the battle against AI use in academia was lost before it even started. Congratulations to everyone involved and have fun in the Republic of Slop.
May 21, 2025 at 11:42 AM
In hindsight, the battle against AI use in academia was lost before it even started. Congratulations to everyone involved and have fun in the Republic of Slop.
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Call for abstract submissions to my SAH 2026 panel titled “New Insights on Histories of African Architecture”.
Studies of social, political, economic, and cultural histories of architecture made, driven, and influenced by Africans on the African continent are welcome.
www.sah.org/2026/call-fo...
Studies of social, political, economic, and cultural histories of architecture made, driven, and influenced by Africans on the African continent are welcome.
www.sah.org/2026/call-fo...
April 14, 2025 at 7:45 PM
Call for abstract submissions to my SAH 2026 panel titled “New Insights on Histories of African Architecture”.
Studies of social, political, economic, and cultural histories of architecture made, driven, and influenced by Africans on the African continent are welcome.
www.sah.org/2026/call-fo...
Studies of social, political, economic, and cultural histories of architecture made, driven, and influenced by Africans on the African continent are welcome.
www.sah.org/2026/call-fo...
The weather’s warmer in Ann Arbor and the flowers are showing out. I have a whole new understanding of ancient fertility rituals and mythologies around Springtime now.
April 30, 2025 at 9:48 PM
The weather’s warmer in Ann Arbor and the flowers are showing out. I have a whole new understanding of ancient fertility rituals and mythologies around Springtime now.
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Just a few hours remaining for most ASA Awards & Honors! Don't miss your opportunity to nominate your colleague, student, or yourself. Most ASA award nominations close today, April 30: africanstudies.org/a...
April 30, 2025 at 7:31 PM
Just a few hours remaining for most ASA Awards & Honors! Don't miss your opportunity to nominate your colleague, student, or yourself. Most ASA award nominations close today, April 30: africanstudies.org/a...
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BBC harnesses AI to create writing classes given by Agatha Christie
BBC harnesses AI to create writing classes given by Agatha Christie
Videos will share author’s tips on everything from story structure and plot twists to the art of suspense
Aspiring crime writers now have the chance to be taught by “Agatha Christie”, thanks to a course of online video lessons by BBC Maestro.
The videos “starring” the author, who died in 1976, have been made using AI-enhanced technology, licensed images and carefully restored audio recordings. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
April 30, 2025 at 9:42 PM
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Call for abstract submissions to my SAH 2026 panel titled “New Insights on Histories of African Architecture”.
Studies of social, political, economic, and cultural histories of architecture made, driven, and influenced by Africans on the African continent are welcome.
www.sah.org/2026/call-fo...
Studies of social, political, economic, and cultural histories of architecture made, driven, and influenced by Africans on the African continent are welcome.
www.sah.org/2026/call-fo...
April 14, 2025 at 7:45 PM
Call for abstract submissions to my SAH 2026 panel titled “New Insights on Histories of African Architecture”.
Studies of social, political, economic, and cultural histories of architecture made, driven, and influenced by Africans on the African continent are welcome.
www.sah.org/2026/call-fo...
Studies of social, political, economic, and cultural histories of architecture made, driven, and influenced by Africans on the African continent are welcome.
www.sah.org/2026/call-fo...
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NEW | Municipal finance: Crosscutting report
Infrastructure and services are key to driving productivity in African cities and making them liveable, sustainable spaces.
They are also needed to attract investment, enhance employment opportunities and advance structural transformation.
Infrastructure and services are key to driving productivity in African cities and making them liveable, sustainable spaces.
They are also needed to attract investment, enhance employment opportunities and advance structural transformation.
March 20, 2025 at 12:03 PM
NEW | Municipal finance: Crosscutting report
Infrastructure and services are key to driving productivity in African cities and making them liveable, sustainable spaces.
They are also needed to attract investment, enhance employment opportunities and advance structural transformation.
Infrastructure and services are key to driving productivity in African cities and making them liveable, sustainable spaces.
They are also needed to attract investment, enhance employment opportunities and advance structural transformation.
Detroit-style pizza is the girl Chicago-style pizza thinks she is.
March 16, 2025 at 2:50 PM
Detroit-style pizza is the girl Chicago-style pizza thinks she is.
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"Large-scale infrastructure projects built and planned across the African continent... are essentially replicating colonial models of infrastructure"
My article for @wpr.bsky.social on mining, big infrastructure projects and their legacy:
www.worldpoliticsreview.com/africa-miner...
My article for @wpr.bsky.social on mining, big infrastructure projects and their legacy:
www.worldpoliticsreview.com/africa-miner...
In Africa, the Race for Critical Minerals Is Recreating Colonial Models
Large-scale infrastructure projects across Africa are attracting billions of dollars in investment. They’re also replicating colonial models.
www.worldpoliticsreview.com
March 10, 2025 at 5:15 PM
"Large-scale infrastructure projects built and planned across the African continent... are essentially replicating colonial models of infrastructure"
My article for @wpr.bsky.social on mining, big infrastructure projects and their legacy:
www.worldpoliticsreview.com/africa-miner...
My article for @wpr.bsky.social on mining, big infrastructure projects and their legacy:
www.worldpoliticsreview.com/africa-miner...
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www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/epdf/10....
New article: "W. E. B. Du Bois and the Liberian Question: Sovereignty, Empire, and the Tensions of a Black Republic"
New article: "W. E. B. Du Bois and the Liberian Question: Sovereignty, Empire, and the Tensions of a Black Republic"
University of Chicago Press Journals: Cookie absent
www.journals.uchicago.edu
March 10, 2025 at 9:47 PM
www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/epdf/10....
New article: "W. E. B. Du Bois and the Liberian Question: Sovereignty, Empire, and the Tensions of a Black Republic"
New article: "W. E. B. Du Bois and the Liberian Question: Sovereignty, Empire, and the Tensions of a Black Republic"
Of all the great art at the University of Michigan hospitals, this - where patients & visitors put their sticker badges up on the walls while leaving is my favourite.
It’s ritual, communal, visual & performance art rolled beautifully together.
It’s ritual, communal, visual & performance art rolled beautifully together.
March 5, 2025 at 10:52 AM
Of all the great art at the University of Michigan hospitals, this - where patients & visitors put their sticker badges up on the walls while leaving is my favourite.
It’s ritual, communal, visual & performance art rolled beautifully together.
It’s ritual, communal, visual & performance art rolled beautifully together.
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1/8 - The Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture - the parent organization for the Journal of Architectural Education - has cancelled the upcoming Fall 2025 issue of the journal - titled “Palestine,” and fired our Interim Executive Editor.
ACSA cancels Fall 2025 Journal of Architectural Education issue about Palestine and fires its interim executive editor
ACSA announced this afternoon it has cancelled a forthcoming JAE edition about Palestine. The Fall 2025 issue was planned to be edited by Cruz Garcia, Nora Akawi, Omar Jabary Salamanca, Zoé Samudzi, a...
www.archpaper.com
March 2, 2025 at 1:22 PM
1/8 - The Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture - the parent organization for the Journal of Architectural Education - has cancelled the upcoming Fall 2025 issue of the journal - titled “Palestine,” and fired our Interim Executive Editor.
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The Journal for Architectural Education’s Palestine issue — for which I was an issue co-editor — was cancelled by the board of Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture citing risks and “new actions by the U.S. presidential administration” 😐
www.archpaper.com/2025/02/acsa...
www.archpaper.com/2025/02/acsa...
ACSA cancels Fall 2025 Journal of Architectural Education issue about Palestine and fires its interim executive editor
ACSA announced this afternoon it has cancelled a forthcoming JAE edition about Palestine. The Fall 2025 issue was planned to be edited by Cruz Garcia, Nora Akawi, Omar Jabary Salamanca, Zoé Samudzi, a...
www.archpaper.com
March 1, 2025 at 2:40 PM
The Journal for Architectural Education’s Palestine issue — for which I was an issue co-editor — was cancelled by the board of Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture citing risks and “new actions by the U.S. presidential administration” 😐
www.archpaper.com/2025/02/acsa...
www.archpaper.com/2025/02/acsa...
Shame on the ACSA for cancelling the Fall 2025 Journal of Architectural Education issue about Palestine!
www.archpaper.com/2025/02/acsa...
www.archpaper.com/2025/02/acsa...
ACSA cancels Fall 2025 Journal of Architectural Education issue about Palestine and fires its interim executive editor
ACSA announced this afternoon it has cancelled a forthcoming JAE edition about Palestine. The Fall 2025 issue was planned to be edited by Cruz Garcia, Nora Akawi, Omar Jabary Salamanca, Zoé Samudzi, a...
www.archpaper.com
March 1, 2025 at 1:58 PM
Shame on the ACSA for cancelling the Fall 2025 Journal of Architectural Education issue about Palestine!
www.archpaper.com/2025/02/acsa...
www.archpaper.com/2025/02/acsa...
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Off to #ISA2025 ! If you plan to attend come and join the following discussions:
(1) Global South and disruptive Technologies in Governance
(2) The evolving global order and IR Theory
(3) Professional development for scholars in and from the Global South
(4)Why and how book reviews can benefit you
(1) Global South and disruptive Technologies in Governance
(2) The evolving global order and IR Theory
(3) Professional development for scholars in and from the Global South
(4)Why and how book reviews can benefit you
February 28, 2025 at 4:52 PM
Off to #ISA2025 ! If you plan to attend come and join the following discussions:
(1) Global South and disruptive Technologies in Governance
(2) The evolving global order and IR Theory
(3) Professional development for scholars in and from the Global South
(4)Why and how book reviews can benefit you
(1) Global South and disruptive Technologies in Governance
(2) The evolving global order and IR Theory
(3) Professional development for scholars in and from the Global South
(4)Why and how book reviews can benefit you
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I wrote a piece for @sciam.bsky.social about why White parents should be talking to their kids about race and racism. It was so great to work with @megha.bsky.social on this piece! Please share! www.scientificamerican.com/article/why-...
Why It’s Important to Talk about Race with Children
Children start learning about race and racism as early as preschool. Talking about race early, however difficult, will help them become more antiracist
www.scientificamerican.com
February 24, 2025 at 2:04 PM
I wrote a piece for @sciam.bsky.social about why White parents should be talking to their kids about race and racism. It was so great to work with @megha.bsky.social on this piece! Please share! www.scientificamerican.com/article/why-...
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1/ I am seeing a lot of comments on the slashing of NIH support along the lines of “universities should just spend their huge endowments.”
I’m the last person to cheer on the institutional stratification rising endowments have contributed to. But let me explain why this is not a solution.
I’m the last person to cheer on the institutional stratification rising endowments have contributed to. But let me explain why this is not a solution.
February 18, 2025 at 1:48 PM
1/ I am seeing a lot of comments on the slashing of NIH support along the lines of “universities should just spend their huge endowments.”
I’m the last person to cheer on the institutional stratification rising endowments have contributed to. But let me explain why this is not a solution.
I’m the last person to cheer on the institutional stratification rising endowments have contributed to. But let me explain why this is not a solution.
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Trump Wants to Destroy All Academia, Not Just the Woke Parts www.nytimes.com/2025/02/14/o...
Opinion | Trump Wants to Destroy All Academia, Not Just the Woke Parts
The administration’s war on universities defies rational self-interest.
www.nytimes.com
February 17, 2025 at 1:35 PM
Trump Wants to Destroy All Academia, Not Just the Woke Parts www.nytimes.com/2025/02/14/o...
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Excited to visit U of Toronto Sociology in a couple of weeks!: www.sociology.utoronto.ca/events/collo...
Colloquia Series - Suspect Citizenship: Rethinking Belonging and Non-belonging in Plural Societies | Department of Sociology
Research discussion on Suspect Citizenship: Rethinking Belonging and Non-belonging in Plural Societies
www.sociology.utoronto.ca
February 13, 2025 at 9:08 PM
Excited to visit U of Toronto Sociology in a couple of weeks!: www.sociology.utoronto.ca/events/collo...
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Emerging Scholars: Looking for journal publication mentorship? The 2025 PIPES workshop might be the answer! Read the workshop summary and submit a draft paper to be considered for our pre-conference workshop in Atlanta. africanstudies.org/annual-meeti...
February 12, 2025 at 3:15 PM
Emerging Scholars: Looking for journal publication mentorship? The 2025 PIPES workshop might be the answer! Read the workshop summary and submit a draft paper to be considered for our pre-conference workshop in Atlanta. africanstudies.org/annual-meeti...
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The Museum of Stolen History: Egyptian government officials and individuals have campaigned for years for the return of what they call the Rashid Stone, but without success. The UK claims it owns the Rosetta Stone under agreements signed by France and the Ottomans and that Egypt has other copies.
The Museum of Stolen History: Part III
Things can be taken. Their stories must still be told.
continent.substack.com
February 12, 2025 at 9:31 AM
The Museum of Stolen History: Egyptian government officials and individuals have campaigned for years for the return of what they call the Rashid Stone, but without success. The UK claims it owns the Rosetta Stone under agreements signed by France and the Ottomans and that Egypt has other copies.