China’s ‘parliament building gift’ to Malawi:

Batsani-Ncube, Innocent

doi:10.2307/j.ctv2x4kp24.11

Architecture and Politics in Africa 2022

DOI: 10.2307/j.ctv2x4kp24.11

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China’s ‘parliament building gift’ to Malawi:

Innocent Batsani-Ncube¹

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Purpose-Built Parliament Buildings and the Institutionalisation of Parliament in Lesotho and Malawi

Batsani-Ncube

2022

Parliamentary Affairs

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Largely inspired by western donor good governance agenda, the current African parliaments literature has overlooked the significance of new parliament buildings that have been constructed by China and tends to place a premium on appraising the performance of parliaments and parliamentarians in executing their legislative, representation, oversight and constituency support. While understanding how parliaments perform is important and necessary, it does not sufficiently address all the ways in which these parliaments are establishing themselves as sustainable political institutions. By disregarding the new parliament buildings, the literature potentially undermines prospects of a wider understanding of the development of African parliamentary institutions. This article leverages the Chinese government donated parliament buildings in Lesotho and Malawi to make a theoretical and comparative case for the utility of discussing the concept of African legislative institutionalisation through and in juxtaposition to, the parliamentary built environment. I find that although there are stylistic and operational differences, the new parliament buildings in Lesotho and Malawi have provided a bespoke parliamentary built environment, enabled the expansion of a cohort of public officials working on legislative business and facilitated the procedural activities of the institution.

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Purpose-Built Parliament Buildings and the Institutionalisation of Parliament in Lesotho and Malawi

Batsani-Ncube

2022

Parliamentary Affairs

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Invented Modernisms: Getting to Grips with Modernity in Three African State Buildings

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Gallagher

2022

Curator The Museum Journal

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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 structuresthe presidential palace in Ghana, the parliament in Malawi and the Northern Cape regional parliament in South Africathe article shows how vernacular ideas have been incorporated into state-ofthe-art political architecture, producing new or explicitly 'African' forms of modernism. It explores how such buildings, which draw on 'invented traditions', are used alongside conventional, monolithic representations of the state to produce 'invented modernisms' that both uphold and question the African state as a project of modernity.Some of the most celebrated architecture in Africa is found in the "high-modernist" monumental buildings constructed after independence to articulate confident modern states (

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Purpose-Built Parliament Buildings and the Institutionalisation of Parliament in Lesotho and Malawi

Purpose-Built Parliament Buildings and the Institutionalisation of Parliament in Lesotho and Malawi

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