Professional Documents
Culture Documents
IAS
A Newsletter published by
the Institute of African
Studies, University of
Ghana, Legon. May, 2014
In This Issue
From the Directors Desk----------------- 2
Major Events------------------------------- 3
50th Anniversary Celebrations
Reggae Symposium
International Conference
IAS-GILBBT International
Conference
NUFU Conference
Nketia Festschrift
Annual AngloGold Lecture on Business
in Africa
African Thinkers
The Biography Project
Inaugurals
Professor Akosua Adomako
Ampofo Inaugural Lecture
nd
Installation of 2 Occupant
of Kwame Nkrumah Chair
Kwame Nkrumah Information Bank
Meet the faculty and staff--------------16
Prole of IAS Fellows
Ongoing Research
Special Awards
Students Corner-------------------------18
Meet our alumni/student
Student Conference Presentations
Maiden Alumni Night
Mkandawire meets IAS Staff and
Students
Student Awards and Graduations
Recent Collaborations-------------------22
Swedish Linnaeus-Palme Programme
Social Sciences Research Council
Research Afliation with African
Leadership Centre, Kings College
KASEB
Directors Message
Beginnings are good moments for reection. They are also times when we in
anticipation of future celebrations give our creative juices an energetic edge. The
revival from a long hiatus of our Newsletter portends well for the year; I am excited
about 2014!
We are half way through the 2013/14 academic year and we have dealt with the usual
business: orientation of new students, welcome of new faculty, mounting old and new
courses, running our weekly seminars and bi-monthly lm shows, meetings of faculty,
interacting with prospective faculty, and attending the usual university meetings. In all
of that, we have had to contend with strike actions that disorganized our routines and
schedulesrst, teaching faculty (UTAG) and later the senior (FUSSAG) and junior
(TEWU) support staff; all of us pressing for delivery from government on diverse
conditions of service.
2013 had some low moments: we were deeply saddened by the senseless bombing at the Westgate Mall in Nairobi in
Septemberin which the roll call of those who joined the ancestors included Professor Ko Awoonor, renowned
Ghanaian poet (and former Ambassador to the UN and Council of State member). We pray that the people of Kenya,
and all the loved ones of family members who passed on may nd peace. It urges us anew that the Pan-African agenda
retains deep salience.
The highest point for 2013 was the IAS International Conference held from October 24-26 to climax the celebration of
our 50th anniversary. The IAS International Conference revisited the 1962 Congress of Africanists held at UG.
Established in 1961, and formally opened in 1963, we began the celebrations in 2012 with a conversation among some
of our former Directors/Ag. Directors, Deputy Directors and some senior Fellows to plan activities for the
celebration. The idea of an international conference was supported by all, and when Professor Gordon, our Kwame
Nkrumah Chairwho had rst visited IAS as a Senior Fulbright Specialist in 2012encouraged us to revisit the
1962 congress this seemed like an excellent idea. In all we received over 280 abstracts, selected 220, and eventually
had 110 papers presented that include papers from 33 countries and 148 institutions-what thrilling diversity! We were
honoured and delighted to have Dr Carlos Lopes of the ECA, and Professors Fatou Sow and Ngg wa Thiong'o as
Keynote speakers. And what fun it was! We enjoyed every bit, from the keynote speeches, all exciting in their own
way, through the fashion show, to the celebration awards dinner and dance. The intellectual discourse was refreshing
and invigorating. But perhaps, for me, the high point was the open conversation between Professors Fatou Sow and
Ngugi wa Thiong'o, and senior high school students. It gave me hope that our future can safely be left in the hands of
the next generation. You can read all about the conference on page 4.
Given the long hiatus of the newsletter it would be impossible to capture all our events and moments; so in this initial
edition of its new life, the editorial time has used its discretion to share some of the most signicant ones. In July 2009,
during the last year of the former Director, Professor Takyiwaa Manuh's term, we hosted an international Revisiting
Modernization Conference, in collaboration with the African Studies Initiative at the Universities of California, USA.
This conference brought together scholars from Ghana and the US, and culminated in the rst special issue of Ghana
Studies after Stephan Miesher (UC Santa Barbara) and I took over as editors. That year also saw the Institute begin
work on an expansion of the old chalets with a $1.5m loan from Prudential Bank. Despite a rocky start with
timelines, construction problems, and management and other stafng challenges, the new Yiri Lodge (meaning
household in Dagbani) is nally slowly coming out of the woods and paying the bills. We appreciate the efforts of Ms.
Naa Lamley Lamptey and her team.
Another major happy event was our celebration of Professor Emeritus J.H. Kwabena Nketia's 90th birthday with an
international conference in his honour in 2011 (see page 10). We are grateful to our newfound corporate partners,
Guinness Ghana Breweries Ltd. for partly sponsoring that event, and the University of Michigan for joining us to
publish selected papers as a Festschrift. That event marked the second in our Cultural and Intellectual Festival
seriesthe idea having been proposed by our rst Nkrumah Chair, Professor Ko Anyidoho, following the
successful conference the theme The Dream, The Reality: Reassessments of African Independence, which was
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held under the auspices of the Chair, in September, 2010 with support from CODESRIA. The University of Ghana
has now formally accepted this as a biennial event (in October).
Research and teaching are what we do, and our graduate students continue to thrive. The NUFU-supported (the
Norwegian acronym for Norwegian Centre for International Cooperation in Higher Education) collaboration with the
University of Bergen ended in 2012 and with that we celebrated the graduation of four PhD students, including two of
our younger faculty, Deborah Atobrah and Edward Nanbigne (see page 10). The Institute continues to graduate a
signicant proportion of the University of Ghana's PhDs, and at the March 2011 congregation, one of our NUFU
graduates, Peter Agbodza, earned the Vice-Chancellor's award for best PhD thesis.
On the teaching front a number of things have happened: in 2009 we revitalized our masters courses completely; in
2010 we re-designed the required undergraduate course(s) in African Studies and teaching began in 2010; this year we
developed a new set of PhD courses in line with the University's policy that doctoral programs should include course
work; and with support from Diaspora Visiting Professor Pius Adesanmi, (Carleton University) we are completing
work on a new set of Masters and PhD courses on African Thought. Naturally, all these additions have implications
for Fellows' work load, and since 2010 a number of new appointments have taken place albeit with some departures as
well: Drs Deborah Atobrah; Philip Afeadie (who has since transferred to the History Dept.); Michael Kpessa
(currently on a leave of absence as policy advisor to the President of the Republic); Mercy Akro Ansah (who joined
us from the UG Language Centre); Benjamin Kwansa and Obadele Kambon (the newest on the block since February
2014). Between 2010 and 2013 we also received 3 Visiting Fellows: Dr. Afe Adogame (from the University of
Edinburgh); Professor Abraham Berinyu (from the University for Development Studies, Tamale); Dr Courtnay Micot
(then graduated from the University of Florida); Professor Suzanne Gott (Fulbright scholar from the University of
British Columbia) and Professor Pius Adesanmi (from the University of Carleton, Canada, under the UG Diaspora
programme). Happily, there have also been several promotions: to Senior Research Fellow, Drs Alhassan (2010) and
Aidoo (2012); to Associate Professor, Sutherland-Addy (2009); and to Professor Awedoba (2009) and Adomako
Ampofo (2010). Additionally, the Assistant Registrar, Mavis Addotey, was promoted to Senior Assistant Registrar in
2012. Sadly, Dr Abraham Akrong left us to join the ancestors in 2010, and we also bade farewell to Mr. James Narh,
who had been driver to the former Director, Professor Manuh, for many years.
Fellows and students have done us proud with a variety of awards (see page 17 & 21) and we are happy to have
installed our rst two Kwame Nkrumah ChairsProfessor Ko Anyidoho and Emeritus Professor Jacob Gordon.
The Chair received generous funding from AngloGold Ashanti and other donors. AngloGold also supports our
annual lecture on Business in Africa, and in October 2013, Mrs Felicity Acquah, former CEO of Eximguaranty Ghana
Limited, was our fourth speaker and rst female presenter (see page 14).
Research remains central to our identity, and Fellows and students engage with a variety of questions ranging from
storytelling to neopatrimonialism, and democratic stability through to the changing roles of traditional queenmothers.
To support our teaching and research, the Media and Visual archives received a major boost with the purchase of new
equipment under the supervision/management of Mrs. Judith Opoku-Boateng (Archivist, Audio-visual archives), Mr.
Philip Owusu (Curator, Museum) and Mrs. Fidelia Ametewee and Ms. Selina Laryea (Senior Research Assistants,
Video/Photography). We have collaborated with NYU in digitizing our resources and really appreciate the personal
interest and support of Dr Mona Jimmez. Mrs. Opoku-Boateng was in Nairobi in November 2013 for a conference on
the preservation of archival material under the auspices of ICCROM (International Centre for the Study of the
Preservation and Restoration of Cultural Property) and Trust for African Rock Art (TARA). In all of this, Dr Labi, art
historian, coordinator of the Media and Visual Arts section, and Deputy Director, provides the leadership that
oversees this full repertoire.
During 2013 IAS also engaged in conversations to begin, continue or conclude new partnerships meant to diversify
our teaching and research, and provide opportunities for faculty and student exchanges (see page 22).
I will conclude with a snippet from Nkrumah's words to us at the formal opening of the Institute in 1963, an
exhortation that we have had many opportunities to revisit in the last year, and that we happily share with you:
We must regard education as the 'gateway to the enchanted cities of the mind' and not only as a
means to personal economic security and social privilege. Indeed, education consists not only in the
sum of what a (wo)man knows, or the skill with which (s)he can put this to (her/)his own advantage. In
my view, a (wo)man's education must also be measured in terms of the soundness of (her/)his
judgment of people and things, and in (her/)his power to understand and appreciate the needs of
(her/)his fellow men, and to be of service to them. The educated (wo)man should be so sensitive to the
conditions around (her/)him that he makes it (her)his 'chief endeavour to improve those conditions for
the good of all. (From The African Genius; additions mine).
Please enjoy this issue and send us comments and suggestions.
Akosua Adomako Ampofo, May 2014.
Director
MAJOR EVENTS
50th Anniversary Celebrations
Reggae Symposium
Opening Ceremony
Professor Adomako Ampofo noted, in particular, the
extensive work done in recent years in the areas of
traditional leadership, gender, folklore and the lives of
important contributors to Ghana's social and political
thought.
L-R: Prof. Akosua Adomako Ampofo, Prof. Ernest Aryeetey, President John Dramani Mahama, Dr. Carlos Lopes singing the
national anthem at the opening ceremony
MISSION
To promote Africa's own specic contributions to the advancement of knowledge about the peoples and cultures of
Africa and the Diaspora.
GOALS
Promote and support networking and interdisciplinary exchanges among Africanist scholars, centres
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L-R: Mr. George Gyesaw, Mrs. Selina Obli, Dr. Kwame Amoah
Labi, Mrs. Fidelia Ametewee and Mr. Philip Owusu
NUFU Conference
A two-day international conference on Globalization and Changes in the Cultures of Care: Local and International
Dimensions was held at the Kwame Nkrumah Complex, IAS in February, 2012.
The conference marked the closing of the NUFU (the Norwegian acronym for Norwegian Centre for International
Cooperation in Higher Education) Project, a multi-disciplinary project, which began in 2007 as a collaboration
between the Institute and the University of Bergen to support Graduate Training through research and other capacity
building activities.
Nketia Festschrift
A two-day international conference was organized by the Institute in honour of Emeritus Professor J. H. K. Nketia, the
rst African Director of the Institute in September, 2011 at the Kwame Nkrumah Complex, IAS. A Festschrift is
expected to be published by the University of Michigan Press from the papers presented at the conference.
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Mrs Felicity Acquah, former CEO of Eximguaranty Ghana Limited, delivered the fourth lecture on the topic
"Micronance: Its revolution and impact on the economic development and growth of emerging economies
over the past three decades - lessons for Africa and Ghana, was delivered on Wednesday, 16 October 2013.
Copies of the lectures are on sale at the IAS bookstore.
African Thinkers
The Institute has developed a core group of courses that will highlight, unearth, and present to students the thoughts,
philosophies and ideas of our foremost African thinkers from antiquity to the present. The programme will include
core and elective courses and will provide scholarships for a select group of outstanding African students courtesy of
the University of Ghana Next Generation Programme funded by Carnegie.
The Biography Project
The Institute of African Studies (IAS) was awarded a University of Ghana Research Fund Grant (6th UGRF 20122013) in June 2013. This is an investigator-led study which is being conducted by fellows of the IAS. The project is
entitled 'A Biographical Study of Some Prominent Ghanaian Personalities, their Lives and Times'. The personalities
are yman Wereko Ampem, Justice Annie Jiagge, Dr. Oku Ampofo and kyeame Kwadwo Boafo Akuffo,
Professor Florence Abena Dolphyne and Tolon-Naa Yakubu Tali. The project is being executed over the period: June
3, 2013- July 31, 2015. The project is expected is being executed over the period: June 3, 2013- July 31, 2015. Sadly,
Mrs Nyameky Tetteh, the daughter of Dr Oku Ampofo, one of our subjects, passed away in January 2014 before we
had the opportunity to fully interview her. May her soul rest in peace.
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INAUGURALS
Professor Akosua Adomako Ampofo Delivers Inaugural Lecture
The IAS Director
Professor Akosua
Adomako Ampofo,
delivered her inaugural
lecture as a (Full)
Professor at the Great
Hall, University of
Ghana, on February
28, 2013.
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Ongoing Research
In this edition, IAS News details ongoing joint research being conducted by Prof. Esi Sutherland-Addy and Dr. Edward
Nanbigne, both of the Language, Literature and Drama section of the Institute. Prof. Sutherland-Addy and Dr.
Nanbigne received a research grant from ORID for the project entitled Shall I Tell You or Shall I Not Tell You?: A
Survey of Ghanaian Tales and Storytelling Traditions. The thrust of the project was to conduct a thorough search for
stories in both private and institutional archival and library holdings in order to identify written and audio-visual
records of tales and data on storytelling in Ghana. The texts will be, as necessary and with permission, digitized and
archived for study. Fieldwork was also undertaken and is still on-going to collect new data on under-represented areas,
particularly from lesser-studied languages and language areas. It is anticipated that the volume of edited scholarly
essays will be published by the Institute this year. A future phase of the project will create a web based depository of
folk tales as a site for scholarly research on tales.
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Special Awards
Professor Abraham Berinyuu, a visiting Scholar from UDS was selected as the 2013 recipient of the E
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Prof. S. K Amanor
H Johnson award for persons or groups who are deemed as serving on the cutting edge of global
missions.
Professor Albert Awedoba and Dr. Deborah Atobrah received a prestigious Rockefeller residential
award tenable at the Bellagio Centre in Italy in December, 2012.
Dr Richard Asante was awarded a Mellon Global Encounters Postdoctoral award at Northwestern
University, USA in September, 2012.
Ms. Njoki Wamai, who joined the Institute during the 2011/2012 academic year as a Research Afliate
from Kings' College, received a Gates Award to pursue a PhD programme at the University of
Cambridge in September, 2012.
Prof. S.K. Amanor, Associate Professor and former Deputy Director of IAS, received the Gerti
Hesseling Award for the Best Article written by an African Scholar in the European Journal, Africa, in
June, 2012.
Dr. Michael Kpessa, Research Fellow, received the 2011-2012 Faculty of Social Sciences Award for
the Most Promising Young Scholar, while Mr. Emmanuel Ekow Arthur-Entsiwah, Principal ICT
Assistant, received the Best Worker Award for the same period.
Two Research Fellows, Dr. Godwin Kwafo Adjei and Dr. Richard Asante were awarded the Doctor of
Philosophy degrees at the University's November, 2011 congregation, and the Administrative
Secretary, Ms. Mavis Oye Addotey, obtained a Master of Arts degree in Communication Studies
during the same congregation.
Dr. Godwin Adjei's won the University of Michigan African Presidential Scholars Programme award.
Professor Adomako Ampofo received the Feminist activism award from the Sociologist for Women
and Society, SWS, in 2010. As part of her award she visited two underserved sociology departments
in the US at the University of Wichita and Monmouth Universityin 2011 where she delivered
public lectures titled, Responding to Violence: Local Activism in a Global Context.
Professor Adomako Ampofo (and Professor Josephine Beoku-Betts, Florida Atlantic University) were
elected co-presidents (elect, for 2014-2018) at the 17th International Sociological Association World
Congress held in Gothenburg in 2010.
Dr. Obadele Kambon received the 2012/2013 Vice-Chancellors Award for best PhD thesis
Students' Corner
Meet our alumni/students
Beginning with this maiden edition, IAS News will prole our alumni and students who continue to make us
proud. Ms Serwaa Afrifa graduated from the Institute in November, 2011 with a Master of Philosophy in African
Studies. She is currently a Teaching Assistant at the Institute.
Interviewer (Q): Good morning, Serwaa. Could you tell us your full name and a little about yourself?
Ms Afrifa (A): Good morning. I am Patricia Serwaa Afrifa.
Q: So who is Patricia Serwaa Afrifa?
A: I am the fourth of six children born to Mr Sampson Afrifa, an Educationist and present headmaster of Asamankese
Senior High School and Madam Comfort Peprah also an Educationist. I was born on 10th March, 1983 and I come
from Wiamoase in the Ashanti Region. For my basic education I attended Swedru International School (SWIS) in
Agona Swedru. After completing Junior Secondary School, I continued on to Ofori Panin Senior High School and
obtained my Senior Secondary School Certicate.
I am a resilient and hardworking young woman who is ready to learn. As a results oriented person with an acute sense
for detail, I undertake whatever tasks are assigned me with passion and enthusiasm. I am Christian and fellowship at
the Seventh-Day Adventist Church at Legon.
Q: Kindly tell us about your undergraduate studies
A: I undertook my undergraduate degree in Linguistics and Sociology at the University of Ghana. I completed in
2007. I am a proud afliate of the Mensah Sarbah Hall.
Q: After your successful completion of the Bachelor's degree, what informed your decision to pursue
postgraduate studies at the Institute of African Studies?
A: Well, as I mentioned earlier, I studied Linguistics and Sociology for my B.A and I wanted a postgraduate degree
that would tie these two disciplines together. That is to say, I was looking for a degree that was interdisciplinary and
would integrate my previous studies in a way that would make me versatile. I thought carefully about this and sought
advice from a former lecturer of mine, Dr. Clement Appah, and nally decided to undertake the MPhil in African
Studies.
Q: What are some of the courses you studied as a postgraduate student and how have these impacted the development
of your scholarship and future goals?
A: We took several courses over the two-year period for the degree, that is, from 2008 to 2010. Some of them were
Family Studies, Gender and Development, African Social and Political Systems and Research Methods. These
exposed me to rigorous research and to a wider eld of scholarship in both the Social Sciences and the Arts which has
been helpful in guiding me in the development of a career in academia.
Q: Please tell us a bit more about your academic interests.
A: I did my MPhil dissertation on Emerging Fostering Practices in Ghana: A Micro-study of Institutionalized
Fosterage in the Tema Municipality. The study reects my interest in Family Studies, with specic emphasis on
Child Care. I also have interests in Gender Studies.
Q: Have you done any work in your area of interest?
A: Yes, I have. At the 62nd Annual New Year School of the University of Ghana, I co-presented a paper titled The
Youth and Career Aspirations: A Case Study of the University of Ghana with Prof Olivia A.T. Frimpong
Kwapong and Prof Kate Addo Adeku of the Institute of Continuing and Distance Education. Recently, I presented
a paper on Childcare in Foster Homes: Public Policy on Institutionalized Fosterage in Ghana at the 2012
Social Sciences Colloquium. I am also currently working on a research paper with Prof Frimpong Kwapong on
Women's Participation in the Design and Implementation of Basic Adult Literacy Programmes: The Case of
the Adult Literacy Programme at the University of Ghana
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Mr. Collins Adu-Bempah Brobbey. Neopatrimonialism and Democratic Stability in Africa: A case of
Ghana's 1992 Re-Democratization.
Ms Abena Kyere (with Akosua Adomako Ampofo) - We have two hands, two feet and a mind we can apply:
A look at the work of Ghanaian women musicians.
ii. Ms. Lydia Amoah - The Changing Roles of Akan Queenmothers: A Study of Nana Yaa Asantewaa II.
iii. Ms. Gloria Sarsah Buabeng Transformational Gendered Ideology: A Case Study of Migrants in Accra.
University of Birmingham-Economic and Social Science Research Council (ESRC)
Maame Kyerewaa Brobbey and Edem Adotey benetted from a University of Birmingham-Economic and Social
Science Research Council (ESRC) - 4-6 September 2013
International Partnership and Mobility Grant to present papers at the Crossroads in African Studies
Conference at the University of Birmingham
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Maame Kyerewaa Brobbey - Conceptions of Economic Knowledge and their Implications for Women's
Economic Decisions in Akrokerri.
ii. Edem Adotey - Founder or Founders: Power, People and the Independence Narrative in Ghana
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Baataar, Cuthbert K.M. (2012): Under Fives in Crisis in The Upper West region of Ghana: Changes In
Parental care And Dwindling Kin Support
Bob-Milliar, George Meyeri (2012): The Dynamics of Political Party Activism in Ghana: A Comparative
Study of the Activists of the NDC and NPP in Wa Central and Lawra-Nandom Constituencies, (1992 2008)
Obeng-Asamoa, Peter Kwabena (2012): Chiefs, Power and Change: Stool Politics in Manya Krobo (18351957)
Agozie Edward Ko (PhD)-2009: The Impact Of Cults On Gender Relations In Contemporary Anl.
MPhil
Atiemo, Ernest Kwame (2012): Girls' nubility rite in contemporary Asante: A study of Bragoro in Suhyien
Abraham Lopawiseh Vanderpuye (2012): Between tradition and modernity: Chieftaincy and the contestation
of authority in the Lambussie Chiefdom of the Upper West Region of Ghana.
Iddrisu Azindow Yakubu (2012): An analysis of the impact of contract farming on the Land Tenure Systems: A
case study of the integrated Tamale Fruit Company in the Savelugu Nanton District.
Akosua Afrakomah Boakye-Ansah (2012): The performance of the contracted Okyeame in contemporary
customary marriage in Accra.
Abena Kyere (2012): A comparative study of the lives and works of selected Ghanaian female musicians from
1980-2010.
Addo, Patience Afua (2011): Inuence of the extended family on couples' reproductive decision making: A
study of Anomabu, a fishing community in the Central Region
Adzei, Ko Semanu Atsu (2011): The rituals associated with the sacred paramount stool of Anfoega
Traditional area
Afreh-Nuamah, Joyce (2011): Women in Ghana Baptist convention: A case study of Accra and Eastern
Associations
Afrifa, Serwaa (2011): Emerging fostering practices in Ghana: A micro study of institutionalization of
fostering in the Tema Municipality
Akolgo, Joseph Octavius (2011): Do Households Budget? Poverty Management In Zuarungu, Ghana
Bonsu, Osei (2011): The changing roles of Chieftaincy in conict resolution in a contemporary Akan Society:
A case study of Oforikrom in the Techiman Municipality
Godswill, Arikor Tetteh (2011): The literary expression of personal experience an examination of the
Authobiography of Camara Laye and Letitia Eva Obeng
Latifu, Tahiru (2011): Civil society and community participation in water provisioning: A case study of
Krachi West District
Offei, Darko Prince (2011): Children as Financial Contributors to Family Sustenance: The case of children
working at quarry site at Pokuase
Joris Atia (2011): The political parties of chieftancy disputes in Northern Ghana: A case study of Zuarungu in
the Bolgatanga Municipality.
Maame Kyerewaa Brobbey (2011): Producing economic knowledge in women's groups: A case study of
Microcredit Groups in Akrokerri, Ghana.
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Prempeh, Charles (2011): Islam and Drugs: A Study of the Use of Marijuana among Muslim Youth in
MA
Antoinette Annan (2013): Freed slave children in the ports of Cape Coast.
Polley, Samuel Alexander (2012): Challenge faces of religion and politics of the Anlo and Agave Eve
Kafui O. Tsekpo (2012): Political parties and development in Ghana's fourth republic, A study of the
manifestos of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) and the New Patriotic Party (NPP), 1992-2012.
Regina Yvonne Fuller (2012): Africanizing church music: A case study of women in a Methodist
congregation in Akwapim States of Ghana.
Abubakari, Musah Sadat (2011): Theatre for Development as an Interventionist Tool of Education for
Democratic Consolidation in Kintampo Municipality
Amoah, Lydia (2011): The changing roles of Akan queenmothers: A study of Nana Yaa Asantewaa II
Ford, Andrea (2011): Wealth, worldview, and modernity: Economic values in a case study of students at the
University of Ghana
Hayab, John Philip (2011): Realism in African Literature: A case study of selected Nigerian Novels: Kole
Omotoso's Just before Dawn and Festus Iyayi's the Contract.
Recent Collaborations
Swedish Linnaeus-Palme Programme
The Institute run a 2-year programme under the Linnaeus-Palme programme with the Department of Language,
Migration and Society (LMS), University of Malm, Sweden.
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Director's Secretary
Institute of African Studies
University of Ghana
P. O. Box LG 73
Legon
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Email: iasgen@ug.edu.gh
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Editorial Team
Professor Akosua Adomako Ampofo
Professor Albert K. Awedoba
Dr. bdl Kambon
Ms. Mavis O. Addotey
Ms. Europa Mildred Taylor
Mr. Emmanuel Ekow Arthur-Entsiwah
Ms. Eva Dzegblor
Mr. Prince Offei Darko
Ms. Abena Karikari
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