Samuel Aniegye Ntewusu
University of Ghana
Institute of African Studies
Professor Samuel Ntewusu is the Principal Investigator at University of Ghana, Legon. Prof. He is the current Director of the Institute of African Studies, University of Ghana, Legon. He previously served as the Research Coordinator of the History and Politics Section of the Institute. His core areas of research are urban history and transport, mining, chieftaincy, archiving, slavery and the slave trade, religious cults and environmental protection, German colonialism, drugs and drug abuse, Ghana-China relations, Zongos (Migrant communities) and (in)formalisation in West Africa. He has been a faculty member at the Institute since 2011 and has promoted African studies at the graduate and undergraduate levels by researching and teaching courses related to Historiography and Methodology, Africa’s Colonial and post-independence history, The Slave Trade and Africa, Pan-Africanism, Chieftaincy and Development. Prof. Ntewusu has authored several articles, book chapters, a monograph on Urban and Transport History and Co-edited a book on aspects of History, Gender and Culture in Africa and Europe. He has collaborated in research and teaching with several scholars, practitioners, and institutions in Ghana and abroad. He was the recipient of the 2016 Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW) Fellowship. The award is intended for top-notch researchers working outside The Netherlands who have shared their knowledge and experience with researchers in Dutch institutes and universities. In 2019 Professor Ntewusu was the recipient of the African Distinguished Speaker Series at California State University, Long Beach. He has delivered several public lectures in institutions in Ghana, the USA and the Caribbean. He is a member of the Board of Trustees of Voorhees University in SC, USA.