- PhD Linguistics, University of Ghana, Legon-Accra (2012)
- MA Linguistics, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI (2005)
- MA African Languages and Literature, minor in Linguistics, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI (2005)
- BA African American Studies – Honors: Magna Cum Laude, Morehouse College, Atlanta, GA
Books
Amfo, Nana Aba Appiah, Tọ́pẹ́ Ọmọniyì, Nii Teiko Teigo, Ọbádélé Kambon, and Kofi Korankye Saah. (2018). Therapeutic Communication Competencies for Nurses and Midwives. Accra: Digibooks.
Bak, Shmsw (Armah, A. K., Attah, A., Bentsi-Enchill, N. K., Blondin, C. A., Delpechin, J., Diop, D., Kambon, Ọ., Somet, Y., Shabaka, L. (2018). Skhmkht Ea. Popenguine, Senegal: Per Ankh. (Yorùbá translation only)
Peer-Reviewed Book Chapters
Kambon, Ọ., & Appiagyei-Atua, K. (2018). The Exportation and Imposition of Statues and why Gandhi Still Must Fall in Ghana. In O. Rhodes Must Fall Movement (Ed.), Rhodes Must Fall: The Struggle to Decolonise the Racist Heart of Empire. London: Zed Books. https://www.press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/distributed/R/bo31263677.html
Kambon, Ọ[1]., & Adjei, G. K. (2017). Singing Truth to Power and the Disempowered: The Case of Lucky Mensah and his Song, “Nkratoɔ”. In A. Olukotun & S. Omotoso (Eds.), Political Communication in Africa (pp. 133-158). Berlin: Springer. http://www.springer.com/la/book/9783319486307
Abdellatif, M., & Kambon, Ọ. (2017). Recalling a Common Struggle for Pan-Africanism: Nkrumah’s and Nasser’s Policies on the Congo Crisis (1960-1966). In A. K. Awedoba, J. U. Gordon, E. Sutherland-Addy, & A. A. Ampofo (Eds.), Revisiting African Studies in a Globalized World (pp. 63-76). Tema, Ghana: Smartline.
Published Research Work in Refereed Journals
Kambon, Ọ., & Asare, Y. M. (2019). Humanities and Sciences as Complementary Aspects of an Afrikan=Black Whole: Evidence from Archeoastronomy. Legon Journal of the Humanities, 30(2).
Kambon, Ọ. (2019). & Yeboah, Nana Yaw Mireku. What Afrikan Names May (or May Not) Tell Us about the State of Pan-Afrikanism. Journal of Black Studies, 50(6), 569–601. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0021934719867923
Kambon, Ọ. (2019). Ku Nseke and Ku Mpèmba: The Dikènga Theory as Evinced Through Content and Function of Akan Ananse Stories and Yorùbá Ìjàpá Tales. Contemporary Journal of African Studies, 6(2).
Kambon, Ọ. (2018). Afrikan Combat Forms Hidden in Plain Sight: Engolo/Capoeira, Knocking-and-Kicking and Asafo Flag Dancing. Africology: The Journal of Pan African Studies, 11(10). http://www.jpanafrican.org/vol12no4.htm
Kambon, Ọ., & Duah, R. A. (2017). Non-African Linguists Be Like, "This is a new way to quote!". Ghana Journal of Linguistics - Special Issue, 6(2), 85-115. https://gjl.laghana.org/index.php/gjl/article/view/138
Kambon, Ọ., & Dzahene-Quarshie, J. (2017). Twiswahili or Kiswatwili: A Study of Parallel Proverbs in Akan (Twi) and Kiswahili. Ghana Journal of Linguistics - Special Issue, 6(2), 116-153. https://gjl.laghana.org/index.php/gjl/article/view/139
Kambon, Ọ. (2017). Akan Ananse Stories, Yorùbá Ìjàpá Tales, and the Dikenga Theory: Worldview and Structure. Contemporary Journal of African Studies, 4(2), 1-36.
https://www.ajol.info/index.php/contjas/article/view/158437
Kambon, Ọ. (2017). An Intertextual Analysis of Jími Ṣólańkẹ́’s Ọ̀nà Là (In The Path) via the Multiple Star System Theory of Mutual Illumination and Interaction. Legon Journal of the Humanities, 28(1), 62-78. doi:https://dx.doi.org/10.4314/ljh.v28i1.6
Appah, C. K. I., Duah, R. A., & Kambon, Ọ. (2017). Akan noun–verb nominal compounds: The exocentric synthetic view. Language Sciences, 1-15. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.langsci.2017.05.001
Kambon, Ọ. (2017). Intellectual Warfare, Theory and Practice: Gates, Thornton, White World Terror Domination and the War on Afrocentricity. Africology: The Journal of Pan African Studies, 10(3), 75-99. www.jpanafrican.org/docs/vol10no3/10.3-7-Kambon.pdf
Kambon, Ọ., Osam, E. K., & Amfo, N. A. (2015). A Case for Revisiting Definitions of Serial Verb Constructions – Evidence from Akan Serial Verb Nominalization. Studies in African Linguistics, 44(2), 75-99. http://sal.research.pdx.edu/PDF/442Kambon.pdf
Kambon, Ọ. (2015). Theory of Endogenous and Exogenous Motivation in L2 Migration. Per Linguam, 31(2), 1-20. http://perlinguam.journals.ac.za/pub/article/view/594
Brindle, J., Dakubu, M. E. K., & Kambon, Ọ. (2015). Kiliji, An Unrecorded Spiritual Language of Eastern Ghana. Journal of West African Languages, 42(1), 65-88. http://main.journalofwestafricanlanguages.org/index.php/downloads/download/122-volume-42-number-1/562-kiliji-an-unrecorded-spiritual-language-of-eastern-ghana
Kambon, Ọ. (2015). Legacies and the Impact of Trans-Atlantic Enslavement on the Diaspora. Journal of Pan African Studies, 8(8), 41-61. http://www.jpanafrican.org/docs/vol8no7/8.7-5-Obadele.pdf
Peer-Reviewed Encyclopedic Articles
Kambon, Ọ. (2015). Acquisition of African Languages. In M. J. Shujaa & K. J. Shujaa (Eds.), Encyclopedia of African Cultural Heritage in North America (pp. 105-109). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications, Inc. http://knowledge.sagepub.com/view/the-sage-encyclopedia-of-african-cultural-heritage-in-north-america/i1533.xml
Kambon, Ọ. Africanisms in Contemporary English. M. J. Shujaa & K. J. Shujaa (Eds.). Encyclopedia of African Cultural Heritage in North America (pp. 192-198). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications, Inc.
Edited Journal Issues
Kambon, Ọ. (2019). Ghana Journal of Linguistics, 8(2).
https://laghana.org/gjl/index.php/gjl/issue/view/17
Kambon, Ọ. (2019). Ghana Journal of Linguistics, 8(1).
https://laghana.org/gjl/index.php/gjl/issue/view/16
Adika, G., Kambon, Ọ. (2018). Ghana Journal of Linguistics, 7(2).
https://laghana.org/gjl/index.php/gjl/issue/view/15
Kambon, Ọ. (2018). Ghana Journal of Linguistics, 7(1), 1-120.
https://laghana.org/gjl/index.php/gjl/issue/view/14
Kambon, Ọ. (2017). Ghana Journal of Linguistics, 6(3), 1-138.
https://laghana.org/gjl/index.php/gjl/issue/view/13
Kambon, Ọ. (2017). Ghana Journal of Linguistics, 6(1), 1-127. http://laghana.org/gjl/index.php/gjl/issue/view/11
Kambon, Ọ. (2016). Ghana Journal of Linguistics, 5(1), 1-81. http://laghana.org/gjl/index.php/gjl/issue/view/9
[1] Corresponding Author.
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Date |
Presentation |
Conference/Workshop |
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6 February 2020 |
A Crosslinguistic Study of Body Part Expressions in Ancient and Contemporary Afrikan Languages: Akan, Yorùbá, Kiswahili and mdw nTr |
1st African Pragmatics Conference |
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19 January 2020 |
Maat vs egalitarianism: Critique of Ataa Ayi Kwei Armah's Wat nt Shemsw |
Afrocentricity International Philadelphia, Pennsylvania |
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23 December 2020 |
What If? Self-Knowledge vs. Self-Ignorance |
Afro-Triping 2019 |
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26 November 2019 |
400 Years? Enduring Historical misorientation and disorientation - Replacing Arbitrary Anglocentrism with Evidence-based Afrikan-Centered Analysis |
Nakumbuka Conference at IAS, University of Ghana |
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13 November 2019 |
Linguistic Body Part Expressions in Akan, Yorùbá, Kiswahili, and Mdw Ntr |
Linguistics Department Seminar, University of Ghana |
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8 November 2019 |
Future of Pan-Afrikanism: Streams of Original Authentic Black Pan-Afrikanism vs. Continentalist All-Africanism |
Keynote – Nairobi Future of Pan-Africanism Talk |
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26 October 2019 |
EOTO - The Community-Building Study-Work Model |
Keynote – Each One Teach One, Berlin, Germany (Streamed) |
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22 October 2019 |
“Ahene mu Hene”: Deɛ Ɛbunkam deɛ aka no nyinaa (Mpɔmpɔnsoɔ) wɔ Akan, Yorùbá, ne mdw nTr mu with C.K.I. Appah and R. Akuɔko Duah |
SOLCON III, University of Ghana |
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22 October 2019 |
Akomamusɛm Nnyinahɔma wɔ Akan ne Kiswahili with Josephine Dzahene Quarshie |
SOLCON III, University of Ghana |
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22 October 2019 |
Kɛseɛyɔ ho Nsɛmfua-nhyehyɛɛ ne Nkyerɛaseɛ wɔ Akan Kasa mu with C.K.I. Appah and R. Akuɔko Duah |
SOLCON III, University of Ghana |
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19 October 2019 |
Our Cultural Heritage: Key to Our Development: Culture and Development talk |
Akuafo Hall, University of Ghana |
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10 October 2019 |
T.R.H. Nana Marcus Mosiah Garvey and Nana Kwame Nkrumah: Convergences and Divergences – Streams of Black Pan-Afrikanism vs. Continentalist All-Africanism |
Black Star Line Cooperative Credit Union Anniversary |
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25 September 2019 |
African Combat Forms Hidden in Plain Sight [UNESCO-ICM 2019] |
UNESCO-ICM, 2nd Afrikan Regional Martial Arts Congress, Accra, Ghana |
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25 September 2019 |
The Potential Role of UNESCO-ICM in Combating Cultural Imperialism & Cultural Misorientation |
Keynote – UNESCO-ICM, 2nd Afrikan Regional Martial Arts Congress, Accra, Ghana |
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15 August 2019 |
Cómo los blancos previenen la unificación de los negros y qué debemos hacer al respecto |
Universidad del Pacífico, Colombia |
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8 August 2019 |
On creation and origins |
"Year of Return" Afrikan "Genesis" Festival |
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7 August 2019 |
400 Years? Enduring Historical misorientation and disorientation and Ghana's #YearOfReturn |
Heritage and Cultural Studies Association, Accra |
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6 August 2019 |
400 years? Replacing Arbitrary Anglocentrism with Evidence-based Afrikan-Centered Analysis |
Year of Return Conference 2019, GIMPA |
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11 July 2019 |
Politicians, Prostiticians, and The Ghana united snakkkes Military Base Agreement |
Ghana Studies Association 2019, School of Law, University of Ghana |
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29 April 2019 |
Why Kemet Matters: Okunini Ọ̣bádélé Kambon |
CIEE Lecture Series, University of Ghana |
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14 March 2019 |
What was Israel in relation to Afrikan=Black People: The Danger of a Single Story |
IAS Lecture Series, University of Ghana |
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6 February 2019 |
The Afrikan=Black People who Emancipated Themselves: CIEE BHM Lecture |
CIEE Black History Month Lecture, University of Ghana |
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6 November 2018 |
Critique of Ayi Kwei Armah's Wat nt Shemsw |
The First Outstanding African Thinkers Conference on Chinweizu, IAS, University of Ghana |
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31 July 2018 |
Morpho-semantics of Superlatives, Augmentatives and Pseudo-augmentative Constructions in Akan with Dr. Clement Appah and Dr. R. Akuɔko Duah |
Linguistics Association of Ghana 2018. University of Ghana |
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19 June 2018 |
Marcus Garvey, Authentic Pan-Afrikanism and Afrikan=Black Identity |
Marcus Garvey Awards Ball and Banquet Launch
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30 March 2018 |
Intergenerational Transmission: Culture, Leadership and NationBuilding |
Sankɔfa Conference 2018 Keynote (Livestreamed) |
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13 October 2017 |
What Afrikan Names May (or May Not) Tell Us about the State of Pan-Afrikanism with Nana Yaw Mmireku Yɛboah |
African Studies Association of Africa (ASAA) 2017. University of Ghana. |
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22 February 2018 |
Du Bois and the Human Rights Agenda |
150th Anniversary Symposium |
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The 2nd Kwame Nkrumah Pan-African Intellectual & Cultural Festival. University of Ghana. |
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24 June 2017 |
Ministry of the Future Benin Delegation Citizenship Workshop at IAS. with Dr. Hamet Maulana |
Institute of African Studies, University of Ghana |
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30 March 2017 |
The Ancient Afrikan Origins of Pan-Afrikanism – A Textual Analysis. with Dr. De-Valera N.Y.M. Botchway. |
African Studies Seminar. University of Ghana |
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3 December 2016 |
Divest from America - Invest in Africa: Make Afrika Great Again! |
ASAA panel live streamed to ASA in Washington, DC |
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27 July 2016 |
Akan and Yorùbá Serial Verb Construction Nominals as Idioms. |
Linguistics Association of Ghana. GILLBT, Tamale. |
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26 May 2016 |
Video for Engagement in the African Classroom and Beyond. |
eLearning Africa International Conference 2016 |:| Khere-Ohe (Cairo), Kmt (Egypt). |
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20 April 2016 |
Writing in Akan: Misspellings, Typos, Deviations or Innovations? An Akan (Twi) Case Study on Lexicalization, Idiomaticity and Semantic Opacity. |
Department of Linguistics Seminar, University of Ghana. |
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14 April 2016 |
African Militaristic Forms Hidden in Plain Sight: Capoeira, Asafo and Knockin-and-kickin’. |
Institute of African Studies. University of Ghana |
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30 November 2015 |
ReAfrikanization and Dewhitenization for Total Afrikan Liberation: Towards a Methodology for Self-Transformation. |
Ministry of the Future Program. Institute of African Studies, University of Ghana |
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13 November 2015 |
Why Kemet (Ancient Egypt) Matters. |
Afrikan Renaissance Foundation. Department of Archaeology. University of Ghana |
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28 October 2015 |
Lexicalization and Issues of Semantic Analysis in Serial Verb Construction Nominalization. |
School of Languages Conference 2015 (SOLCON 1) |
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27 October 2015 |
Twi Abɛɛfosɛm: Kasa, Kankorɔ ne Nkɔsoɔ (Twi Neologisms: Language, Progress and Development). |
School of Languages Conference 2015 (SOLCON 1) |
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15 October 2015 |
The Ancient African Origins of Pan-Africanism. with Dr. De-Valera N.Y.M. Botchway. |
African Studies Association of Africa. University of Ìbàdàn. |
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10 October 2015 |
How you can make it on African Soil: An Abibitumi Kasa Case Study. |
Africana Conference 2015. University of Cape Coast. |
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21 September 2015 |
The Forces Arrayed Against Africa: Cultural and Spiritual Warfare. |
Founder’s Day 2015. University of Ghana. |
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29 July, 2015 |
Non-African Linguists Be Like “This is a new way to quote! with Dr. Reginald Akuɔko Duah. |
Linguistics Association of Ghana 2015. KNUST College of Science |
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28 July 2015 |
KiswaTwili or TwiSwahili: A Study of Parallel Proverbs in Akan (Twi) and Kiswahili. with Dr. Josephine Dzahene-Quarshie. |
Linguistics Association of Ghana 2015. KNUST College of Science.
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22 May 2015 |
Experiences at The World’s Largest Online African Language Learning Institute. |
e-Learning Africa Conference 2015. African Union, Addis Ababa. |
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24 April 2015 |
The Humanities and the Sciences as Complementary Aspects of an African Whole. |
NYU/IAS Conference on the Humanities. |
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20 March 2015 |
Harnessing Our Culture for National Development: The Role of the Ghanaian Student. |
Legon Archaeology Students' Association African Arts Festival (AAFEST). Archaeology Department, University of Ghana. |
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4 December 2014 |
Parallels between Akan Ananse Stories and Yorùbá Ìjàpá Tales: Structure, Function, Content and Worldview. |
IAS Weekly Thursday Seminar. University of Ghana Institute of African Studies. |
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28 November 2014 |
Transformations through Study Abroad: My Experience. |
CIEE 20th Anniversary Keynote. University of Ghana - International House |
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15 October 2014 |
Serial Verb Nominalization in Akan: A question of intervening elements. |
Linguistics Department Seminar. University of Ghana Linguistics Department. |
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28th July 2014 |
Chanting YorùbÁkan: A Stylistic Analysis of Jími Ṣólańkẹ́'s ‘Ọ̀nà Là’ |
Linguistics Association of Ghana 2014. University of Professional Studies, Accra (UPSA). |
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28th July, 2014 |
Legacies of the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade on the Diaspora. |
20th Anniversary of UNESCO Slave Route Project Talk. University of Ghana Institute of African Studies |
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24 May 2014 |
Neo-Colonialism as an Impediment |
Opening Keynote Speech Model African Union Conference. SOS Hermann Gmeiner International College |
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7 March 2014 |
Africanisms in Contemporary English with specific reference to Ebonics in the US. |
IAS Weekly Thursday Seminar. Institute of African Studies, University of Ghana |
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23 October 2013 |
Recurrent Sound Correspondences of Akan and Yorùbá: Towards Proto-Benue-Kwa C1 Reconstruction. |
Department of Linguistics Seminar, University of Ghana. |
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30 July 2013 |
Serial Verb Nominalization in Akan. |
Linguistics Association of Ghana (LAG), University of Cape Coast, Cape Coast, Ghana. |
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4 November 2011 |
Serial Verb Nominalization in Akan and Yorùbá: Towards a cross-linguistic typology. |
Linguistics Department Seminar. University of Ghana |
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9 August 2011 |
Analytic Causatives in Akan. with Reginald Duah |
Linguistics Association of Ghana (LAG). KNUST, Kumasi, Ghana |
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June 2011 |
Afrikan Worldview and Afrikan Spirituality. |
Adaa, Ghana |
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30 September 2009 |
Serial Verbs in African Language Syntax and the Morphosyntactic Interface: A Formally Functional Approach |
Department of Linguistics Seminar. University of Ghana |
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27 September 2006 |
What Black Studies Can Do for You |
Chicago State University. |
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18 March 2006 |
Linguistic Connections between Akan, Yorùbá and Mdw Ntr |
Teaching About Africa Professional Development Seminar Series. Kemetic Institute. Northeastern Illinois University. |
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10 October 2005 |
Faculty of Language: what is it, who has it and how did it evolve? |
Seminar on Syntax. UW-Madison |
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20 April 2005 |
Yoruba Greetings and the Yoruba (African) Worldview |
World Languages Day. UW-Madison |
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May 2004 |
Ìwà-pẹ̀lẹ́ and Ìwà rere: Yorùbá Conceptions of Good Character (in honor of Baba Jedi Shemsu Djehewty aka Dr. Jacob Carruthers). |
21st Association for the Study of Classical African Civilizations (ASCAC) Conference, Malcolm X College, Chicago, IL |
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17 November 2003 |
Cultural Unity of Worldview and Ethos in the Akan and Yoruba Oral Narrative Traditions. |
Seminar on African Mythology. UW-Madison |
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27 June 2003 |
The Importance of Reclaiming African Language/Worldview and the Responsibility of the African Language Teacher. |
Special Keynote: National African Language Resource Center Summer Teacher Training and Curriculum Development Institute. UW-Madison. |
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29 April 2003 |
Ona La: A Stylistic Analysis of Jimi Solanke’s Poetry |
African Languages and Literature Graduate Student Colloquium |
- Undergraduate Only
UGRC 220: Intro to African Studies
UGRC 235-238: Intro to African Languages
UGRC 238: Introductory Conversational Akan (Twi)
- Post-graduate
AFST 638: Foundations of African Thought
AFST 640: Seminar I: Academic Writing (with Dr. Akrofi Ansah)
AFST 607: African Oral Narratives (Prof. Sutherland-Addy and Dr. Nanbigne)
AFST 645: The Writing System of Mdw Ntr (Ancient Egyptian Hieroglyphs)
AFST 647: Connections between Ancient Egyptian Hieroglyphs and Contemporary African Languages
AFST 648: Readings in Ancient Egyptian Hieroglyphs
Supervision
Gumbe, Nangamso. (In progress). Transitioning Places: An Exploration of The Interdependency Between Collective Afrikan Thought and Communal Spaces.
Ɔkyere, Bright Ɔhene. (In progress). The Dynamics of African Proverbs: Akan And Yorùbá.
Bodua-Mango, Ruth. (In progress). An Ethno-linguistic Investigation of Safaliba Personal Names and Nomenclature Systems.
Opare, Grace. (In progress). An Ethnographic Study of Duabɔ Among the People of Asante-Akyem Agogo.
Adjandeh, E. (2018). The Socio-Cultural Life of the Eʋe Peoples Through Funeral Poetry: A Case Study of the Akpini People of The Volta Region, Ghana. (Ph.D.), University of Ghana, Legon.
Jones, D. (2017). Black Existentialism: A Historico-Philosophical Analysis of Black Experiences in America. University of Ghana, MPhil. (I eventually resigned from this committee due to student not following advice/instructions).