Monday, 19 November 2018 at 5:30 pm – Monday, 19 November 2018 at 7:30 pm

Professor Ola Uduku Inaugural Lecture

Date: Monday 19th November 2018

Time: 5.30pm – 7.30pm, wine reception from 5.30pm – 6pm

Location: Benzie 403, Benzie Building, Manchester Metropolitan University

Schools, Heritage, Urbanism and Development in Africa: Past Histories and Future Perspectives

Ola Uduku, took up a Chair in Architecture at the Manchester School of Architecture in September 2017. Prior to this she was Reader in Architecture, and Dean International for Africa, at Edinburgh University. Her research specialisms are in Architectural Modernism in West Africa, the history of educational architecture in Africa, and the contemporary issues related to social infrastructure provision for minority communities in cities in the ‘West’ and ‘South’.

She has published in the areas of African Architecture, Urbanism and Diaspora Studies, Notable amongst these publications are: Social Infrastructure in Granby Toxteth, Uduku and Ben-Tovim (1997) Africa Beyond the Post-Colonial, Uduku and Zack-Williams, (2004) Gated Communities: Social Sustainability in Contemporary and Historical Gated Developments, Bagaeen and Uduku, ( 2010) and Beyond Gated Communites; (Bagaeen and Uduku 2015) She has recently published her monograph Learning Spaces in Africa: Critical Histories, 21st Century Challenges and Change, (Uduku, June 2018)