| | Preface
| | Meuser, Philipp & Dalbai, Adil | | 8 |
| | Introduction
| | Dalbai, Adil, Mkasa, Livingston & Meuser, Phillip | | 10 |
| | 1. Theorising African Architecture
| | Meuser, Philipp | | 18 |
| | 2. Questioning African Architecture
| | Dalbai, Adil | | 88 |
| | 4. Past Awareness : History and Heritage
| | Dalbai, Adil | | 136 |
| | 4.1 History Matters : Authenticity and Cultural Guardianship
| | Legae, Johan | | 138 |
| | 4.2 Theorising Complexity : Five Commonalities in African Architecture
| | Myers, Garth | | 144 |
| | 4.3 Retracing Memory : A Humanist Approach to Architecture
| | Morojele, Mpethi | | 146 |
| | 4.4 Heritage Now : Taking Ownership of the Canon
| | Ihejirika, Edward | | 148 |
| | 4.5 African Modernities : Indigenous Elites, Colonialism, and Architecture
| | Folkers, Antoni | | 150 |
| | 4.6 Reclaiming the Past : Our Heritage, Our Cultures, Our Future
| | Mpahlwa, Luyanda | | 154 |
| | 4.7 Redeeming Heritage : Engendering a Fifth Age in African Architecture
| | Egbo, Godson | | 158 |
| | 5. Popular Edifices : Traditional Knowledge and the Vernacular
| | Dalbai, Adil | | 160 |
| | 5.1 Modern Vernacular : Theorising Popular Architecture
| | Makachia, Peter A | | 162 |
| | 5.2 Intentional Ephemerality : Unwritten Architectural Theory in Africa
| | Brisibe, Warren Gabriel | | 164 |
| | 5.3 Scaling Microstructures : From the Primitive Hut to Vernacular Technology
| | Osseo-Asare, DK | | 166 |
| | 5.4 Vernacular sustainability : Examples from Ethiopia and Eritrea
| | Gebremedhin, Naigzy | | 169 |
| | 5.5 Everyday Originals : Between Iconic and Vernacular Architecture
| | Perzyna, I, Morel, M, Van der Lans, B & Folkers, A | | 172 |
| | 5.6 Unrelenting Change : Architecture, Modernism, and Identity
| | Frescura, Franco | | 176 |
| | 5.7 Indigenous Knowledge : Communities and Innovation in Africa
| | Mampuru, Linda Felix | | 180 |
| | 6. Architectural Identity : Style and Authenticity
| | Dalbai, Adil | | 182 |
| | 6.1 Authentically African : The Search for an Appropriate Architecture
| | Ohoh, Samuel Oghale | | 184 |
| | 6.2 Othering Africa : The Trouble with 'African Architecture'
| | Kamara, Mariam | | 186 |
| | 6.3 Affording Authenticity : Thoughts on African Architecture
| | Uduku, Ola | | 188 |
| | 6.4 From Wakanda to Benin : Restoration, Representation, and Architecture
| | Probst, Peter | | 190 |
| | 6.5 State House : Reading Statehood through Metaphors of Home
| | Gallagher, Julia | | 192 |
| | 6.6 Symbolic Heirarchies : Spatial Representations in African Architecture
| | Mashabane, Phill | | 194 |
| | 6.6 Symbolic Hierarchies : Spatial Representations in African Architecture
| | Mashabane, Phill | | 194 |
| | 6.7 Hybrid Solutions : African Architecture and Identities
| | Keldi, Mahmoud | | 196 |
| | 7. Diverse Settings : Social and Spatial Contexts
| | Dalbai, Adil | | 198 |
| | 7.1 African Cities : From Disruption to Mutation
| | Adjaye, David | | 200 |
| | 7.2 Building Commons : An Inventory of a Kampala Neighbourhood
| | Kéré, Francis | | 202 |
| | 7.3 Make it Funky : Imagery, Recourcefulness, Syncopation
| | Freelon, Philip | | 204 |
| | 7.4 Africanising Education : Challenges Inherent in Teaching Architecture in in Africa
| | Ellong, Epée | | 206 |
| | 7.5 Seeing South : 'African' Architecture and Spatial Justice
| | Low, Iain | | 208 |
| | 7.6 Cosmopolitan Localism : Architecture of Discoveries
| | Galli, Jacopo | | 212 |
| | 7.7 Urban Polyrhythms : Layered Patterns and Programs for Architecture
| | Cohen, Donna I | | 214 |
| | 8. Constructing Narratives : Voices and Representations
| | Dalbai, Adil | | 216 |
| | 8.1 Balancing Processes : An African Theory of Architecture
| | Benimana, Christian | | 218 |
| | 8.2 Finding a Vocabulary : Power Implications of Architectural Language
| | Berlando, Tomà | | 220 |
| | 8.3 Many Africas : Devising New Terminologies and Structures
| | Osae-Addo, Joe | | 222 |
| | 8.4 Decolonising the Canon : Imagined Histories and Alternative Frameworks
| | Apotsos, Michelle | | 224 |
| | 8.5 Architecture's Other : Africa in Flux
| | Denison, Edward | | 226 |
| | 8.6 Failed Continent? : Representations of Africa
| | Boer, René | | 230 |
| | 8.7 Perceiving Futures : Towards an Afro-Imagery
| | Gooden, Mario | | 234 |
| | 9. Taking Charge : Agency and Architectural Practice
| | Dalbai, Adil | | 236 |
| | 9.1 A New Paradigm : Ethics and Architecture for an African environment
| | Forjaz, José | | 238 |
| | 9.2 Architecture's Input : The Project of Decolonialisation
| | Pereira, Helder & Glllett, Coral | | 240 |
| | 9.3 Which 'Theory'? : An African Stance on Theorising Architecture
| | Fisher, Roger C | | 242 |
| | 9.4 Theorising Experience : A Neohumanist Perspective
| | Luckan, Yashaen | | 246 |
| | 9.5 Appropriate Modernity : About African contemporary Architecture
| | Albrecht, Benno | | 248 |
| | 9.6 Form and Process : Some Notes for an Architect in Africa
| | Pearce, Mick | | 250 |
| | 9.7 Project Africa : Very Minor Thoughts on architecture and Power
| | Abengowe, Anna Nnenna | | 252 |
| | 10. Within and Without : Global Perspectives and the Diaspora
| | Dalbai, Adil | | 254 |
| | 10.1 Double Blind : Thinking theory and Africa
| | Prak?sh, Vikram?ditya | | 256 |
| | 10.2 Transnational Tactics : A View fro across the Indian Ocean
| | Srivastava, Amit & Scriver, Peter | | 258 |
| | 10.3 Indigenous Identities : Australian and African Architectural Experiences
| | Grant, Elizabeth & Heyes, Scott | | 262 |
| | 10.4 Jamaican Yards : Spatial Constructs of the African Diaspora
| | Pigot-Dennis, Elizabeth | | 266 |
| | 10.5 From Africa to the Diaspora : Towards a Theory of (Pan-)African Architecture
| | Charles, I & Davis, II | | 268 |
| | 10.6 Afrocentric Architecture : From Theory to Design
| | Hughes, David | | 270 |
| | 10.7 Revealing Patterns : Ten Principles of Black Cultural Design
| | Travis, Jack | | 272 |
