‘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.
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…