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Author:   Iain Jackson ,  Ewan Harrison ,  Michele Tenzon ,  Rixt Woudstra
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Imprint:   Bloomsbury Visual Arts
Dimensions:   Width: 19.00cm , Height: 3.60cm , Length: 24.00cm
Weight:   1.460kg
ISBN:  

9781350411357

ISBN 10:   1350411353
Pages:   520
Publication Date:   05 March 2026
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Forthcoming
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Table of Contents

Foreword – Ola Uduku (University of Liverpool) Introduction 1. The United Africa Company Archive 2. Responder Essay - UAC and/in the Archives: Silences and Gaps – Ayodeji Olukoju (University of Lagos) 3. Trading Stations on the River Niger: Treaties, Charters, and the Royal Niger Company 4. Island Traders: The Company Town of Burutu and the Crown Colony of Lagos 5. Responder Essay: UAC Rivers Stations and Oil Rivers: An Argument for Local ‘Found’ Knowledge as the Archilles heel in Ijo Communities – Warebe Brisibe (Rivers State University, Nigeria) 6. Image Collection: Rivers and Coast 7. Shifting Narratives of Legitimation: Palm Oil Extraction in the Belgian Congo 8. Building a ‘Forest Factory’: Architecture, Extraction and the African Timber and Plywood Company in Nigeria and Ghana 9. Responder Essay: Land – Ola Uduku (University of Liverpool, UK) 10. Image Collection: Land 11. Fine Buildings Enrich A Country: Factories, Showrooms and the UAC as a partner in Decolonisation 12. The Independence Boom: Africanisation, Land Speculation and the Business of Building 13. Kingsway Stores: Contested Visions of Developments 14. Responder Essay: Social Class, Kingsway Stores, Archival Fictions – Kuukuwa Manful (University of Michigan, US) 15. Image Collection: City Coda References Bibliography Appendices

Reviews

Meticulously researched by a collaborative team this book brings to light and discusses a whole layer of new archival material that will shape not just a better awareness of colonial and post-colonial eras in Africa, but also of the nature of research itself. * Mark Jarzombek, Professor of the History and Theory of Architecture, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA * This is a substantial contribution to current debates on architecture and the built environment in colonial British West Africa and its successor countries. It shows how the UAC and its subsidiaries shaped cities and landscapes in the region by exploiting the advantages available to British companies during the colonial rule and by adapting to the shifting political conditions in the wake of decolonization. * Lukasz Stanek, Professor of Architecture, University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, USA * This history of the century-old UAC from perspectives offered in its recently opened archive is brilliant, demonstrating how the company’s history in extraction and export, and later in local production of wholesaled and retailed commodities, saw it become a major player in the production of new forms of architecture and urbanism in West and Central Africa in the colonial period but also, unexpectedly, in the post-Independence era. An excellent addition to the growing scholarship on African architecture and urbanism from the late 19th through the period after Independence. * Ikem Stanley Okoye, Associate Professor of African Art and Architecture, University of Delaware, USA *

Author Information

Iain Jackson is Professor of Architecture at the University of Liverpool, UK; Ewan Harrison is Lecturer at the University of Manchester, UK; Rixt Woudstra is Lecturer at the University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands; Michele Tenzon is research associate at University of Liverpool; Claire Tunstall is Global Head of Art Collections, Archives and Records Management at Unilever.

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