RESEARCH: dissertation done in collaboration with the Ghana Monuments and Museums board, and the University of Cambridge
In my BA dissertation, I explored the complex relationship between identity, landscape, and architecture through the lens of Ghana’s slave castles.
Land has always been a part of the human experience. The relationship between cultures and the natural landscape often includes issues of identity, image and community . The landscape also includes the built environment and therefore, a human relationship with it. This dissertation uses the so called slave castles of
Ghana and their architecture to unpack some of the intricacies of these relationships , using their turbulent history and contested identity as a starting point to answer questions of heritage and homeland. The role of the contemporary castles as tourist sit es is used to place architecture along with landscape, as a tool that can be used to define places of homecoming.
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