Jean Allman is Vice President-elect of ASA!
GSA’s own Jean Allman is the Vice President-elect of the African Studies Association, of which the Ghana Studies Association is an international affiliate. Congratulations, Jean!
Celebrating the life and achievements of Philip F. W. Bartle (1943-2015)
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 is winner of the 2016 ALA Book of the Year Award for Creative Writing
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…
Carina Ray on love and race in Ghana–Valentine’s Day special
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).
Ato Quayson on Oscar-contender ‘The Revenant’
Ato Quayson takes on “The Revenant” and Hollywood’s predilection for glorifying colonial conquest in The Guardian. Check it out here.
The Ghana Reader is out!
The Ghana Reader: History, Culture, Politics Kwasi Konadu and Clifford C. Campbell, editors Covering 500 years of Ghana’s history, The Ghana Reader provides a multitude of historical, political, and cultural perspectives on this iconic African nation. Whether discussing the Asante kingdom and the Gold Coast’s importance to European commerce and transatlantic slaving, Ghana’s brief period…