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The Architecture of the United Africa Company: Building Mercantile West Africa

Funder
Leverhulme Trust
Award
£298,182
Dates
2021 – 2023
Role
Principal investigator
Researchers
Ewan Harrison, Michele Tenzon and Rixt Woudstra
Partner
Claire Tunstall, Unilever Archives
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Architecture, Empire and Trade: The United Africa Company
See also
Shopping Emporiums of West Africa: The Kingsway Stores
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The project on TAG

A two-year Leverhulme Trust project on the buildings of the United Africa Company, the Unilever subsidiary that traded across West Africa, and on how its stores, offices, warehouses and housing shaped the region’s towns and cities.

The project was run in collaboration with Unilever Archives, with a team of three postdoctoral researchers.

From the project