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Africans, Israelis, and the Postcolonial Built Environment - Architecture and Development: Israeli Construction in Sub-Saharan Africa and the Settler-Colonial Imagination, 1958–1973 By Ayala Levin. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2022. Pp. 320. $107.95, hardcover (ISBN: 9781478015260); $28.93, paperback (ISBN: 9781478017882); ebook (ISBN: 9781478091820).

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Architecture and Development: Israeli Construction in Sub-Saharan Africa and the Settler-Colonial Imagination, 1958–1973 By Ayala Levin. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2022. Pp. 320. $107.95, hardcover (ISBN: 9781478015260); $28.93, paperback (ISBN: 9781478017882); ebook (ISBN: 9781478091820).

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 September 2023

Ola Uduku
Ola Uduku*
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University of Liverpool
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EthiopiaSierra LeoneNigeriaIsraelarchitecturetransnationalismdevelopmentdiplomatic relationsmodernity
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The Journal of African History , Volume 64 , Issue 2 , July 2023 , pp. 324 - 326
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2 For more on the ‘aid game’, see Singer, H., ‘External aid: for plans or projects’, in Bhagwati, J. and Eckaus, R. (eds.), Foreign Aid: Selected Readings (London, 1970)Google Scholar.

3 Stanek, Ł., Architecture in Global Socialism: Eastern Europe, West Africa, and the Middle East in the Cold War (Princeton, 2022)Google Scholar.

4 Bayart, J.F., The State in Africa: The Politics of the Belly (2nd edn, London, 2009)Google Scholar.

5 For more on the Riviera project, see Hertz, M., ‘Project of a nation: the African riviera and the Hôtel Ivoire’ in Hertz, M., African Modernism: The Architecture of Independence (Zurich, 2015), 382–97Google Scholar.

6 Enwezor, O., The Short Century: Independence and Liberation Movements in Africa, 1945–1994 (Munich, 2001), 45–9Google Scholar.