The Metropole, the official blog of the Urban History Association, is featuring Accra as its November metro of the month. GSA members Jennifer Hart, Hermann W. von Hesse, and Sarah Balakrishnan contribute articles on the growth of an informal economy in colonial Ghana; the history of cemeteries and the politics of burial; and the fascinating…

The Department of Anthropology and African Studies (ifeas) at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz hosts a comprehensive archive on African Independence Day celebrations, created by Carola Lentz and a group of PhD and Master students, which offers unique insights into practices of national commemoration and political celebrations in Africa. The archive holds more than 28,000 images…

Carola Lentz, professor of Anthropology at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, has been named the new president of the Goethe-Institut. A lifetime member of the Ghana Studies Association (GSA), Prof. Lentz joined the association in the 1990s. She has conducted fieldwork in Ghana since the late 1980s; for many years, her focus was on the Upper…

      Our 3rd Triennial Conference at the University of Ghana in July 2019 was another wonderful meeting of the Ghana Studies community. Visit “GSA Triennial Conferences” on the main menu for the highlights of the program, presentations, special events, social interactions, and social media stream from “Ghana as Center”, and much more.

Ben Talton, associate professor of history at Temple University and immediate past president of GSA, reviews Jemima Pierre’s The Predicament of Blackness: Postcolonial Ghana and the Politics of Race, published by University of Chicago Press. Read more at Africa is a Country….