By Jean Allman On October 7th, 2014, Northwestern University Professor Emeritus Ivor G.H. Wilks passed away at the home he shared with his wife, Nancy Lawler, in the west of his beloved Wales. A prolific author, meticulous researcher, and a teacher of boundless generosity, Professor Wilks is best known for his foundational texts on the…
Naaborko Sackeyfio-Lenoch’s new book, The Politics of Chieftaincy examines debates over authority and property in Accra, Ghana, during the peak decades of British colonial rule. Between 1920 and 1950, imperial policies marginalized educated elites, local authorities, and landowners in favor of Ga chiefs, whom the British authorities viewed as more loyal to the empire. Conflicts erupted throughout…
2013 Research Grant Report, by Joseph Darko (2013 Grantee) I can still remember my face beaming with smiles when I read through the email notifying me of the grant I had been given by the Ghana Studies Association. In the 2011/2012 academic year, I enrolled on an MPhil Programme in Statistics at the University of…
NEW BOOK Letters from Ghana 1968-1970: A Peace Corps Chronicle has been published by Peace Corps Worldwide (2013). The book is compiled and edited by Jon Thiem, Professor Emeritus of English at Colorado State University. From 1968 to 1970, Thiem was a Peace Corps English teacher in Acherensua, Brong Ahafo Region. Every two weeks, he sent…
GSA mourns the loss of a literary hero, Prof. Kofi Awoonor, who was among those killed at the Westgate Shopping Mall in Kenya. We are grateful for his wisdom so beautifully conveyed through his words. KOFI AWOONOR, 1935-2013
Anne V. Adams, ed., Essays in Honour of Ama Ata Aidoo at 70 (Oxford: Ayebia, 2012). Amazon link here