“The Ghana Academy of Arts and Sciences (GAAS) has rejected the government’s proposed Public University Bill. According to framers of the Bill, it seeks to harmonize the finances, administration and governance structure of Public Universities. But according to GAAS, the powers accord the government and its agencies too much power to meddle in the affairs…
“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…
LYDIA AMOAH (University of Ghana) Lydia Amoah is a graduate student at the Institute of African Studies, University of Ghana, Legon, with a background and research interest in Gender, Cultures and Development. Her PhD research topic is “Queen mothers and conflict resolution among the Akan of Ghana: a study of the Asantehemaa’s court in Kumasi,…
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…