Dr. Edwina Ashie-Nikoi is an archivist and historian of the African and African Diaspora experience with particular interest in the ways peoples of African descent document themselves and how culture and history are traditionally remembered and represented in African/diasporan cultural systems.
Dr. Sylvia Bawa is an Associate Professor of Sociology at York University. Her research examines intersections of international political economy, postcolonialism, human rights and culture as well as discourses of empowerment, decolonization, human rights, culture and critical development.
Dr. George M. Bob-Milliar is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of History and Political Studies, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), Kumasi, one of the most prestigious public universities in Ghana. He joined the faculty of KNUST in August 2013 and has been involved in research, teaching, and mentoring of students at all levels.
Professor Akin Odebunmi was born in Ogbomoso, Oyo State, Nigeria. He obtained his BA (Ed) and MA degrees in English from the University of Ilorin and took a PhD in English (Pragmatics) from the Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Nigeria.
The Institute of African Studies at the College of Humanities at the University of Ghana, is pleased to announce that Council of the University of Ghana, at its meeting held on 29th September 2020, has appointed Professor Amina Mama as the Fourth occupant of the Kwame Nkrumah (KN) Chair in African Studies. The appointment took effect from 1st November 2020 and Professor Mama has since assumed the position.
Ms Judith Opoku-Boateng, Archivist at the Institute of African Studies (IAS), College of Humanities - University of Ghana, has been elected to serve on the Executive Board of the International Association of Sound and Audiovisual Archives as Vice President for Communication for the 2020-2023 term.
The Institute of African Studies Teaching Museum is an ethnographic museum consisting of an artifact gallery, collection storage and a flagship Asafo Company sculpture garden. As part of the academic resources of the Institute, the museum combines artifacts display and guided tours for teaching and learning. The museum affords diverse patrons including scholars, students and the public viable windows to knowledge on Africa.
The museum provides the following services and avenues:
Bard Graduate Center is creating, in collaboration with the Brooklyn Museum, in the Arts of Africa a new postdoctoral fellowship. It is a 3 year fellowship, and will involve collections research at Brooklyn leading up to the reinstallation of the collection, and teaching and research activity at the BGC. Kindly click here a complete job description can be found.
Appointment to run 1 August 2021–30 June 2024