Iain Jackson is Professor of Architecture at the University of Liverpool, UK; Ewan Harrison is Lecturer at the University of Manchester, UK; Rixt Woudstra is Lecturer at the University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands; Michele Tenzon is research associate at University of Liverpool; Claire Tunstall is Global Head of Art Collections, Archives and Records Management at Unilever.

• Foreword – Ola Uduku (University of Liverpool)Introduction1. The United Africa Company Archive2. Responder Essay - UAC and/in the Archives: Silences and Gaps – Ayodeji Olukoju (University of Lagos)3. Trading Stations on the River Niger: Treaties, Charters, and the Royal Niger Company4. Island Traders: The Company Town of Burutu and the Crown Colony of Lagos 5. Responder Essay: UAC Rivers Stations and Oil Rivers: An Argument for Local ‘Found’ Knowledge as the Archilles heel in Ijo Communities – Warebe Brisibe (Rivers State University, Nigeria)6. Image Collection: Rivers and Coast7. Shifting Narratives of Legitimation: Palm Oil Extraction in the Belgian Congo 8. Building a ‘Forest Factory’: Architecture, Extraction and the African Timber and Plywood Company in Nigeria and Ghana9. Responder Essay: Land – Ola Uduku (University of Liverpool, UK)10. Image Collection: Land 11. Fine Buildings Enrich A Country: Factories, Showrooms and the UAC as a partner in Decolonisation12. The Independence Boom: Africanisation, Land Speculation and the Business of Building13. Kingsway Stores: Contested Visions of Developments14. Responder Essay: Social Class, Kingsway Stores, Archival Fictions – Kuukuwa Manful (University of Michigan, US)15. Image Collection: City CodaReferencesBibliographyAppendices

This immensely rich volume will sate the appetite of scholars from fields well beyond the central themes of architecture, trade and empire. . .This book makes a resounding contribution to architectural inquiry, especially as it relates to coloniality, at a time of profound crisis within and beyond the discipline.

Iain Jackson is Professor of Architecture at the University of Liverpool, UK; Ewan Harrison is Lecturer at the University of Manchester, UK; Rixt Woudstra is Lecturer at the University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands; Michele Tenzon is research associate at University of Liverpool; Claire Tunstall is Global Head of Art Collections, Archives and Records Management at Unilever.

• Foreword – Ola Uduku (University of Liverpool)Introduction1. The United Africa Company Archive2. Responder Essay - UAC and/in the Archives: Silences and Gaps – Ayodeji Olukoju (University of Lagos)3. Trading Stations on the River Niger: Treaties, Charters, and the Royal Niger Company4. Island Traders: The Company Town of Burutu and the Crown Colony of Lagos 5. Responder Essay: UAC Rivers Stations and Oil Rivers: An Argument for Local ‘Found’ Knowledge as the Archilles heel in Ijo Communities – Warebe Brisibe (Rivers State University, Nigeria)6. Image Collection: Rivers and Coast7. Shifting Narratives of Legitimation: Palm Oil Extraction in the Belgian Congo 8. Building a ‘Forest Factory’: Architecture, Extraction and the African Timber and Plywood Company in Nigeria and Ghana9. Responder Essay: Land – Ola Uduku (University of Liverpool, UK)10. Image Collection: Land 11. Fine Buildings Enrich A Country: Factories, Showrooms and the UAC as a partner in Decolonisation12. The Independence Boom: Africanisation, Land Speculation and the Business of Building13. Kingsway Stores: Contested Visions of Developments14. Responder Essay: Social Class, Kingsway Stores, Archival Fictions – Kuukuwa Manful (University of Michigan, US)15. Image Collection: City CodaReferencesBibliographyAppendices

This immensely rich volume will sate the appetite of scholars from fields well beyond the central themes of architecture, trade and empire. . .This book makes a resounding contribution to architectural inquiry, especially as it relates to coloniality, at a time of profound crisis within and beyond the discipline.

Iain Jackson is Professor of Architecture at the University of Liverpool, UK; Ewan Harrison is Lecturer at the University of Manchester, UK; Rixt Woudstra is Lecturer at the University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands; Michele Tenzon is research associate at University of Liverpool; Claire Tunstall is Global Head of Art Collections, Archives and Records Management at Unilever.

• Foreword – Ola Uduku (University of Liverpool)Introduction1. The United Africa Company Archive2. Responder Essay - UAC and/in the Archives: Silences and Gaps – Ayodeji Olukoju (University of Lagos)3. Trading Stations on the River Niger: Treaties, Charters, and the Royal Niger Company4. Island Traders: The Company Town of Burutu and the Crown Colony of Lagos 5. Responder Essay: UAC Rivers Stations and Oil Rivers: An Argument for Local ‘Found’ Knowledge as the Archilles heel in Ijo Communities – Warebe Brisibe (Rivers State University, Nigeria)6. Image Collection: Rivers and Coast7. Shifting Narratives of Legitimation: Palm Oil Extraction in the Belgian Congo 8. Building a ‘Forest Factory’: Architecture, Extraction and the African Timber and Plywood Company in Nigeria and Ghana9. Responder Essay: Land – Ola Uduku (University of Liverpool, UK)10. Image Collection: Land 11. Fine Buildings Enrich A Country: Factories, Showrooms and the UAC as a partner in Decolonisation12. The Independence Boom: Africanisation, Land Speculation and the Business of Building13. Kingsway Stores: Contested Visions of Developments14. Responder Essay: Social Class, Kingsway Stores, Archival Fictions – Kuukuwa Manful (University of Michigan, US)15. Image Collection: City CodaReferencesBibliographyAppendices

This immensely rich volume will sate the appetite of scholars from fields well beyond the central themes of architecture, trade and empire. . .This book makes a resounding contribution to architectural inquiry, especially as it relates to coloniality, at a time of profound crisis within and beyond the discipline.