2025 Distinguished Africa Lecture
Adebayo Ajadi
https://utexas.zoom.us/j/99256171577?pwd=iqEFFV00qHtkznGjDNLq23ewIcpkKs.1
“Methodological Issues in Historical Research in Africa: Some Insights from Ghana’s Paper Archives”
Date: Tue. April 1, 2025
Time: Austin CST 4 PM//9 PM Ghana //10 PM Lagos // South Africa 11 PM
Join Zoom Meeting
https://utexas.zoom.us/j/99256171577?pwd=iqEFFV00qHtkznGjDNLq23ewIcpkKs.1
Meeting ID: 992 5617 1577
Passcode: 157763
Samuel Ntewusu
Director of the Institute of African Studies, and Associate Professor at the University of Ghana, West Africa
Samuel Aniegye Ntewusu holds a PhD in History from the University of Leiden, The Netherlands, and an MPhil in African Studies from the University of Ghana. Samuel Ntewusu teaches Chieftaincy and Development in Africa (undergraduate course) and handles the following post-graduate courses: The Slave Trade and Africa, Colonial Rule and African Responses, and Pan Africanism. He has published extensively on Ghana's social history, including A Social History of Gold Mining in Bole, Migrant Chiefs in Stranger Communities in Ghana, and Chieftaincy and Polygamy in Ghana. In 2016, Ntewusu received the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW) Award. He was the African Distinguished Speaker 2019 at California State University- Long Beach. In 2022, he was selected to lecture on ‘African Royalty’ by The Antigua and Barbuda Reparations Support Commission. The same year, he was made a member of the Board of Trustees of Voorhees University, Denmark, South Carolina, USA.
Adebayo Ajadi
“Methodological Issues in Historical Research in Africa: Some Insights from Ghana’s Paper Archives”
Date: Tue. April 1, 2025
Time: Austin CST 4 PM//9 PM Ghana //10 PM Lagos // South Africa 11 PM
Join Zoom Meeting
https://utexas.zoom.us/j/99256171577?pwd=iqEFFV00qHtkznGjDNLq23ewIcpkKs.1
Meeting ID: 992 5617 1577
Passcode: 157763
Samuel Ntewusu
Director of the Institute of African Studies, and Associate Professor at the University of Ghana, West Africa
Samuel Aniegye Ntewusu holds a PhD in History from the University of Leiden, The Netherlands, and an MPhil in African Studies from the University of Ghana. Samuel Ntewusu teaches Chieftaincy and Development in Africa (undergraduate course) and handles the following post-graduate courses: The Slave Trade and Africa, Colonial Rule and African Responses, and Pan Africanism. He has published extensively on Ghana's social history, including A Social History of Gold Mining in Bole, Migrant Chiefs in Stranger Communities in Ghana, and Chieftaincy and Polygamy in Ghana. In 2016, Ntewusu received the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW) Award. He was the African Distinguished Speaker 2019 at California State University- Long Beach. In 2022, he was selected to lecture on ‘African Royalty’ by The Antigua and Barbuda Reparations Support Commission. The same year, he was made a member of the Board of Trustees of Voorhees University, Denmark, South Carolina, USA.
