Carina Ray is to be awarded the Wesley-Logan Prize in African Diaspora History by the American Historical Association (AHA) for her book Crossing the Color Line: Race, Sex, and the Contested Politics of Colonialism in Ghana (Ohio Univ. Press, 2015). “The AHA offers annual prizes honoring exceptional books, distinguished teaching and mentoring in the classroom,…
GSA Treasurer Kwame Essien’s Brazilian-African Diaspora in Ghana: The Tabom, Slavery, Dissonance of Memory, Identity, and Locating Home is available for pre-order on Amazon and Google Books. See details and description here. Acclaim for the book “This study of the Tabom is a long-awaited contribution by Kwame Essien to the literature on the African returnees from…
This year’s GSA Research Grant program was the most competitive yet, with 18 applications from University of Ghana, University of Cape Coast, and the University of Development Studies. GSA thanks reviewers David Owusu-Ansah, Rebecca Shumway, Lloyd Amoah, Gretchen Bauer, Cyrelene Amoah-Boampong and Nana Akua Anyidoho. Here are the winners: Joana Kwabena-Adade is a PhD candidate…
Phil Bartle, who died on November 6, 2015 after a prolonged period of poor health, wrote an impressive but little known sociological dissertation, an ethnography about the Kwahu town of Obo. He first came to Ghana in 1965 as a Canadian (CUSO) volunteer to teach economics and mathematics at St Peter’s Secondary School in Kwahu-Nkwatia.…
Manu Herbstein, GSA member and independent write and scholar, is winner of the ALA 2016 Book of the Year Award (Creative Writing) for his novel The Boy Who Spat in the Sargrenti’s Eye. He received the award at the African Literature Association’s Awards Ceremony in Atlanta on 9 April 2016. His first novel, Ama, A…
This conversation between our very own Carina Ray and Dan Magaziner is excellent. Read it here (and subscribe to the blog Africa is a Country for a steady diet of thought-provoking articles on everything Africa, including from GSA members).