The President of the Ghana Academy of Arts and Sciences (GAAS) has the pleasure to invite members of the University community to an Inaugural Lecture by Professor Akosua Adomako Ampofo, former Director, Institute of African Studies, University of Ghana, Legon, as follows: Topic: Who are we and whose are we? Identity and Transforming the Nation…
GSA member and winner of last year’s Boahen-Wilks Article Prize, Ebony Coletu, has been named a Nancy Weiss Malkiel Scholar for 2017. In a nation-wide search conducted by the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation, Ebony was selected to be one of 10 Malkiel scholars. This award acknowledges and further supports Ebony’s work as a scholar…
Sandra Greene’s new book, Slave Owners of West Africa: Decision-Making in the Age of Abolition (Indiana University Press, 2017), is featured in a write up about her research.
Ghana Studies Association is featured in the ASA News (Summer 2017)! The newsletter highlights the activities and achievement of GSA and its members. Here is the write up in full: Ghana Studies Association The Ghana Studies Association, which began as the Akan Studies Council in 1988, is a multidisciplinary organization of about 200 scholars based…
The Executive Board of the African Studies Association has selected Benjamin N. Lawrance as the new Editor-in-Chief of the Africa Studies Review. Joining him as Editorial Board members are two other GSA members: Akosua Adomako Ampofo and Ben Talton. “Dr. Lawrance is a prize-winning historian of social justice who studies comparative historical and contemporary slavery,…
The Nkonya-Alavanyo Land Dispute in Ghana: Land Struggle, Power and the Challenges of Belonging focuses on the 100-year old land dispute between the two ethnic communities of Nkonya and Alavanyo in the Volta region of Ghana, who have engaged in intermarriages and other interactive social activities for over 300 years, until the land dispute emerged…