The Ghana Studies Association (GSA) is a membership-organization of scholars of Ghana from all around the world, and whose current leadership and many of its members are based in public universities in Ghana. We also produce research that engages with the country and its people in productive ways. We are, therefore, an association that has…
About the prize The Boahen-Wilks Outstanding Scholarly Article Prize is awarded by the Ghana Studies Association to recognize scholarship that best exemplifies the rigor, innovation and interdisciplinary nature of Ghana Studies. The prize is named in honor of two pioneering scholars—Albert Adu Boahen and Ivor Wilks. The Boahen-Wilks Prize is open to journal articles and…
When Melania Trump donned a pith helmet on her 2018 trip to Kenya—one of four African countries she visited during her first official solo trip abroad—commentators pointed out that her choice to wear the colonial-era throwback was tone deaf and smacked of nostalgia for a time characterized not only by sartorial oddities, but by brutality…
If you are searching for intellectual content that (mostly) has nothing to do with Covid, subscribe to the YouTube channel Critic.Reading.Writing. The channel, created by GSA member and current President of the African Studies Association, Professor Ato Quayson, speaks to the relevance of humanities through an exploration of literature, as well as film, history and…
Nana Akua Anyidoho and Akosua Adomako Ampofo, GSA members at the University of Ghana, explain why the Public University Bill (PUB) currently before government is a rollback of the hard-won academic freedom that Ghanaian academies have enjoyed for decades now. It echoes the GSA statement on the PUB: that it is unconstitutional, unnecessary, and harmful…
Dr. Carina Ray, an associate professor of African and African-American Studies at Brandeis University and immediate past editor of Ghana Studies (the GSA journal), writes an opinion piece in the New York Times on grappling, in a very personal way, with the fact of and protests againt with police brutality in the US. Read the…
WE OPPOSE GHANA’S PUBLIC UNIVERSITY BILL [SIGNATURE CAMPAIGN] We, the undersigned, are scholars based in Ghana and all across the world who are horrified at the intention of the Ghanaian government to pass the Public University Bill. This draconian bill, which seeks to hand over control of tertiary education to the Executive Branch of the…