Prof. Amoako-Gyampah, Akwasi Kwarteng

I am a Senior Lecturer in the Department of History Education, UEW, Ghana, and a Senior Research Associate in the Department of History, University of Johannesburg South Africa. Currently, I serve as the vice dean of the School of Graduate Studies. I am an  Advisory Board member of the WomanAtwork project headquartered at the Institute of African Worlds in Paris. I also serve on the editorial board of Sankofa - Ghana Journal of Archaeology and Heritage Studies.  I completed my BA honours degree at the University of Ghana and my MA and Doctoral studies at the University of Johannesburg, South Africa. My interests in African history and African Studies span political economy, comparative labour history, economic history, the social history of medicine and public health, the history of sanitation and public hygiene, and the history of African religious and traditional aetiologies. I have published extensively in reputable international and local journals including the Journal of Social History, Social History, Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences, etc. My current research focuses on sanitation and public hygiene in colonial and post-colonial Ghana.