Böcker av Joseph Godlewski

The Architecture of the Bight of Biafra challenges linear assumptions about agency, progress and domination in colonial and postcolonial cities adding a sub-Saharan case study to existing scholarship on globalization and modernity.

In the relative absence of physical architectural documentation, this study draws from a close reading of written sources¿traveler¿s accounts, slave traders¿ diaries, memoirs, colonial records, and oral histories¿ as well as contemporary field work to trace transformations in the region¿s-built environment from the sixteenth century to today.