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…
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…
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…
“The Ghana Academy of Arts and Sciences (GAAS) has rejected the government’s proposed Public University Bill. According to framers of the Bill, it seeks to harmonize the finances, administration and governance structure of Public Universities. But according to GAAS, the powers accord the government and its agencies too much power to meddle in the affairs…
“If you enjoy podcasts, you’ll love Between, Across, and Through an academic podcast by the Centre for Diaspora and Transnational Studies at the University of Toronto. Last September, they released an episode entitled Lessons in Space with ASA President Ato Quayson, the founding Director of that Centre. Enjoy this 40 minute episode filled with warmth,…
Bright Gyami, a PhD student at Northwestern University, won the 2019 Best Paper by an Emerging Scholar Presented at the GSA Triennial Conference for a paper presented at the 3rd Triennial Conference of the GSA which was held in July 2019 in Accra, titled “From Nkrumah’s Ghana to the African Diaspora: Ghanaian Intellectual Activists and…
LYDIA AMOAH (University of Ghana) Lydia Amoah is a graduate student at the Institute of African Studies, University of Ghana, Legon, with a background and research interest in Gender, Cultures and Development. Her PhD research topic is “Queen mothers and conflict resolution among the Akan of Ghana: a study of the Asantehemaa’s court in Kumasi,…