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…
Ambassador Laudemar Goncalves de Aguiar Neto, Charge d’Affaires, Brazilian Embassy in Ghana invited Professor Kwame Essien to launch his book Brazilian-African Diaspora in Ghana: The Tabom, Slavery, Dissonance of Memory, Identity, and Locating Home at the Brazilian Embassy in Accra, Ghana. The book is about ex-slaves from Brazil and how they resettled in Gã Mãŋ, Accra from the 1820s after…
At last, the GSA’s Year in Review (2016) is finally here! Viewing our many accomplishments from the distance that February affords makes them appear all the more impressive! GSA members have published new books and innovative articles in leading journals, while also editing a dynamic range of special issues and edited collections. Our brilliance and…
‘A few days after the December 2016 elections in Ghana, a cartoon appeared in Uganda’s Sunday Monitor depicting a civics lesson in a classroom where the teacher asked the question: What is democracy? The response from the pupils was “Ghana.”’ So begins Audrey Gadzekpo’s overview of the 2016 elections in Ghana – ‘Consolidating Democracy in Ghana’ – in…
The GSA Boahen-Wilks Article Prize recognizes and highlights scholarship on Ghana that demonstrates rigor, innovation, and dynamism. For the 2016 prize, we received a total of 11 submissions that included both self-nominations and a few external nominations. We were pleased to receive papers from history, anthropology, art history, sociology, political science, international relations and safety…
“A Donald Trump presidency has grave implications for US relations with Africa. His meteoric political ascension ushers in an era of right-wing domestic extremism and international disregard…” Read the rest of this article titled “Trump’s rise: African-American politicians must lead on Africa’s affairs” on The Conversation.