GSA Memo on Anti-LGBTQ Bill
GSA First Virtual Forum, 9 April – Rethinking Black Internationalism
The Ghana Studies Association (GSA) in collaboration with Africa is A Country is excited to announce the first in a series of digital scholarly panel conversations that showcase the most exciting rising scholars and new research. April 9, 2021 1-3pm EST/5-8pm GMT digital and format details to follow Rethinking Black Internationalism: New Directions in Historical…
Ato Quayson is “Academic of the Year”!
Ato Quayson, GSA member and immediate Past President of the African Studies Association, has been selected by Brittle Paper as their ‘Academic of the Year’ for “his use of social media to bring scholarly ideas about literature to mainstream audiences” through his “Critic.Reading.Writing” Youtube channel, launched in July 2020. Professor Quayson has said that the…
Jesse Shipley on “The passing of Jerry John Rawlings”
In a piece on the online magazine, “Africa is a Country”, Jesse Weaver Shipley, Professor of African and African American Studies at Dartmouth University, reflects on the lessons we can learn from a 1970s political-cultural icon who dominated Ghanaian politics right through the 1980s and 1990s. Read more…
Jennifer Hart is the winner of the 2020 Boahen-Wilks Prize
Jennifer Hart, Associate Professor of History at Wayne State University, is the winner of the 2020 Boahen-Wilks Article Prize! This is the citation from the Prize Selection Committee, presented by Nana Yaw Sapong during the ceremony at the (virtual) GSA Business Meeting on 22 December 2020: “For the 2020 prize, we received nominations from history,…
GSA’s new President -Kwasi Ampene
At this year’s GSA Business Meeting, convened online following the African Studies Association annual meeting (also held virtually, for the first time), members elected Professor Kwasi Ampene, an ethnomusicologist at University of Michigan, as the new President of GSA. Read Professor Ampene’s short statement below and his bio here. “It is with a deep sense…