About

Kwabena Opoku-Agyemang is a senior lecturer at the English Department of the University of Ghana, where he earned his BA and MPhil degrees. He completed his MA and PhD degrees in English Literature at West Virginia University. His scholarship has appeared in several edited volumes and journals and revolves around African digital literature. He is the West African Anglophone editor of Tydskrif vir Letterkunde, the oldest literary journal in South Africa, and serves on the boards of journals that include Journal of Gaming and Virtual Worlds, Hyperrhiz: New Media Cultures, and Critical Global Issues. He teaches a selection of undergraduate and graduate courses at the department and is the academic director for SIT Ghana. He enjoys mentoring young people.

Research Interest

My research interests straddle digital literature and African literature.

Publications

Opoku-Agyemang, Kwabena and Elizabeth Abena Osei. “Nnedi Okorafor’s Africanfutures, Sankofa, and the Echoes of Pan-Africanism.” Global Africa 3 (2023): 253-265. https://doi.org/10.57832/kqn7-8w13 

Opoku-Agyemang, Kwabena. “Orality, Experiential Learning, and Decolonizing African Literature at the University of Ghana.” In Decolonizing the English Literary Curriculum edited by Ato Quayson and Ankhi Mukherjee. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (2023): 214-235. 

Opoku-Agyemang, Kwabena. “Shola Adenekan’s African Literature in the Digital Age and Directions in Digital Africas.” Eastern African Literary and Cultural Studies 9.1. (2023): 1-3. https://doi.org/10.1080/23277408.2023.2228656 

Opoku-Agyemang, Kwabena. “Digital Cities and Villages: African Writers and a Sense of Place in Short Online Fiction.” Journal of African Media Studies 15.2. (2023): 217-229. 

Opoku-Agyemang, Kwabena and J.B. Amissah-Arthur. “From Oral To Digital And Back: Adinkra Symbols and Kweku Ananse On YouTube.” In Global Perspectives on Digital Literature edited by Torsa Ghosal. New York: Routledge (2023): 181-195.