Kuukuwa Manful
Kuukuwa Manful is a trained architect and researcher from Ghana who creates, studies and documents architecture in Africa. She is a Visiting Postdoctoral Scholar at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences (CASBS) at Stanford University, and a Postdoctoral Researcher on the African State Architecture Project at SOAS, University of London. She holds a PhD from SOAS, University of London, an MSc in African Studies from The University of Oxford, and Master’s and Bachelor’s degrees in Architecture from the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology.
Through her Accra Archive project (funded by the British Library’s Endangered Archives Programme), she has digitised a collection of endangered historical architectural material pertaining to architecture, construction and urban regulation in Ghana. She curates adansisɛm – an architecture collective that documents Ghanaian architecture theory, research and practice; she co-founded and runs sociarchi – a social architectural enterprise that advocates for, and provides, architectural services to people who ordinarily cannot afford architects; and she serves as President of the Docomomo Accra Chapter.
