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A collection of primary sources chosen by the research fellows Centring Africa: Postcolonial Perspectives on Architecture, Doreen Adengo, Dele Adeyemo, Warebi Gabriel Brisibe and Ramota Obagah-Stephen, Rachel Lee and Monika Motylinska, Ikem Stanley Okoye, Cole Roskam, Łukasz Stanek, and Huda Tayob.
Fugitive Archives is not a book about African architecture or its history. It is a book about the role of primary research in the work of the fellows and about how, to centre Africa in histories of modern architecture, they had to develop new ways of finding, seeing, and listening. The sources presented here are starting points for dismantling and expanding existing architectural archives, in which what is considered valuable enough to archive remains dominated by colonial or Western knowledge frameworks. Through varied media and formats, the sources multiply narratives by highlighting diverse actors, practices, and geographies—on and off the continent—implicated in the history of modern African architecture. Rather than suggesting key, but inevitably reductive, themes, this book brings the fellows and their sources into dialogue in three sections that foreground similar methods and challenges to locating, accessing, reading, and constructing otherwise fugitive archives.
Edited by Claire Lubell and Rafico Ruiz
Graphic design by Naadira Patel and Fred Swart
Co-published with Jap Sam Books
Softcover, 232 pages
Table of Contents, Fugitive Archives: A Sourcebook for Centring Africa in Histories of Architecture (CCA/Jap Sam Books, 2023). © CCA
A conversation transcribed in Fugitive Archives: A Sourcebook for Centring Africa in Histories of Architecture (CCA/Jap Sam Books, 2023), 16–17. © CCA
Extract from the 1962 article “Feizhou redai jianzhu jieshao [Introduction to Tropical Architecture in Africa],” by Chen Deng’ao, reproduced in Fugitive Archives: A Sourcebook for Centring Africa in Histories of Architecture (CCA/Jap Sam Books, 2023), 30–31. © CCA
The 1966 article “Aspirations” by John Owusu-Addo and Max Bond, reproduced in Fugitive Archives: A Sourcebook for Centring Africa in Histories of Architecture (CCA/Jap Sam Books, 2023), 42–43. © CCA
Extract from the 2000 article “The Century Project,” by Dapo Adeniyi with Koku Konu and Uche James Iroha, reproduced in Fugitive Archives: A Sourcebook for Centring Africa in Histories of Architecture (CCA/Jap Sam Books, 2023), 86–87. © CCA
A section introduction in Fugitive Archives: A Sourcebook for Centring Africa in Histories of Architecture (CCA/Jap Sam Books, 2023), 104–105. © CCA
Stills from the 1959 film Come Back, Africa, directed by Lionel Rogosin, reproduced in Fugitive Archives: A Sourcebook for Centring Africa in Histories of Architecture (CCA/Jap Sam Books, 2023), 112–113. © CCA
Stills from the 2001 film Stageshakers! Ghana’s Concert Party Theatre, directed by Kwame Braun, reproduced in Fugitive Archives: A Sourcebook for Centring Africa in Histories of Architecture (CCA/Jap Sam Books, 2023), 148–149. © CCA
A 2020 oral history transcribed in Fugitive Archives: A Sourcebook for Centring Africa in Histories of Architecture (CCA/Jap Sam Books, 2023), 182–183. © CCA
Extracts of 1948 meeting minutes of the Port Harcourt Plot Allocation Committee, reproduced in Fugitive Archives: A Sourcebook for Centring Africa in Histories of Architecture (CCA/Jap Sam Books, 2023), 190–191. © CCA
Slides from the 1970s–1980s in the Georg Lippsmeier Collection, reproduced in Fugitive Archives: A Sourcebook for Centring Africa in Histories of Architecture (CCA/Jap Sam Books, 2023), 196–197. © CCA
Photographs of Mary Stuart Hall, Kampala, by Timothy Latim, reproduced in Fugitive Archives: A Sourcebook for Centring Africa in Histories of Architecture (CCA/Jap Sam Books, 2023), 230–231. © CCA
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