The Team

Eugenia Ama Breba Anderson

Eugenia is feminist historian and lecturer at Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology. Eugenia recently completed her PhD on gender and student activism in Ghana also at KNUST.

Prof. Karen Lauterbach

Karen is Director of the Centre for Africa Studies at the University of Copenhagen. Karen has an interdisciplinary background in African Studies, history, cultural geography and development studies.

Manuel Mano Osafo

Manuel is writing a PhD on the relations between the Asante Kingdom and British Colonial rule. He is studying at the University of Ghana.

Dr. John Forkuor Boulard

John is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Sociology and Social Work at Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology. John has published widely on urban developments in Africa, with a particular focus on the lives and livelihoods of street vendors.

Prof. George Bob-Milliar

George is director of the Centre of Cultural and African Studies at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology. As an Africanist, George brings perspectives on Ghanaian history, politics and culture to the project. George is currently co-editor of African Affairs.

Dr. Ben Jones

Ben is Senior Lecturer with the School of International Development at the University of East Anglia. A social anthropologist, Ben has published award-winning research looking at issues of social change, development and local politics in Africa. Prior to becoming an academic, Ben worked for the World Bank.

Expert Panel Members

Prof. Jennifer Hart

Wayne State University, USA

Niels Kastfelt

(Associate professor emeritus)

University of Copenhagen, Denmark

Dr. William Monteith

University of London, UK

Prof. Esmeralda Manful

Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Ghana

Dr. Jeffrey Paller

University of San Francisco, USA

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