“If you enjoy podcasts, you’ll love Between, Across, and Through an academic podcast by the Centre for Diaspora and Transnational Studies at the University of Toronto. Last September, they released an episode entitled Lessons in Space with ASA President Ato Quayson, the founding Director of that Centre. Enjoy this 40 minute episode filled with warmth,…
Bright Gyami, a PhD student at Northwestern University, won the 2019 Best Paper by an Emerging Scholar Presented at the GSA Triennial Conference for a paper presented at the 3rd Triennial Conference of the GSA which was held in July 2019 in Accra, titled “From Nkrumah’s Ghana to the African Diaspora: Ghanaian Intellectual Activists and…
Abdul-Gafaru Abdulai holds an MPhil in Development Studies from the University of Cambridge (UK), and a PhD in Development Policy and Management from the University of Manchester (UK). He is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Public Administration at the University of Ghana Business School (UGBS), and an Honorary Research Fellow at the Global…
Joeva Rock is the 2019 winner of the GSA’s Boahen-Wilks Article Prize! The award was announced at the GSA Business Meeting on Friday, 22 November in Boston at the 62nd Annual Meeting of the African Studies Association. Dr. Rock’s article, titled ‘We Are Not Starving’: Challenging Genetically Modified Seeds and Development in Ghana, “provides an…
The Metropole, the official blog of the Urban History Association, is featuring Accra as its November metro of the month. GSA members Jennifer Hart, Hermann W. von Hesse, and Sarah Balakrishnan contribute articles on the growth of an informal economy in colonial Ghana; the history of cemeteries and the politics of burial; and the fascinating…
The Department of Anthropology and African Studies (ifeas) at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz hosts a comprehensive archive on African Independence Day celebrations, created by Carola Lentz and a group of PhD and Master students, which offers unique insights into practices of national commemoration and political celebrations in Africa. The archive holds more than 28,000 images…