Education

B.A. History, University of Ghana, 1981-1985. Dissertation: “Kente Weaving in Somme Traditional Area (Eweland).”

M.A. Economic History, University of Calgary, 1988-1989. Dissertation: “Technological Change and Continuity in West African Handloom Weaving, c.1300-1980: A Case Study of Southern Ghana.”

Ph.D History, York University, Toronto, 1989-1996. Dissertation: “The

Hidden Hand of Overrule: Political Agents and the Establishment of British

Colonial Rule in Northern Nigeria, 1886-1914.”

Area of specialization

British colonialism in West Africa; the Ewe of southeastern Ghana.

Courses Taught

HIST 311: History of Ghana Up to 1800

HIST 322: History of Ghana in the 19^th & 20^th Centuries

HIST 317: Economic History of West Africa, 1700-1890

HIST 328: Economic History of West Africa, 1890-1960

HIST 427: Colonial Rule and African Response: Partition and Pacification

HIST 428: Colonial Rule and African Response: Nationalism and Independence

HIST 704: Historical Inquiry and Writing

HIST 705: Advanced African Historiography

Current Research

The Ewe People of Southeastern Ghana – Foundations of Agbozume              

Research Publications

2021                “Emergence and Growth of Keta Emporium, 1510 – 1750”, in Sub-Saharan Africa:  Culture, History and People, ed. Paul Sergius Koku (New York: Nova Science Publishers, 2021), 113-148. (Article in Book)

2019                “Historiographical Review of the European Partition of West Africa”, Ghana Social Science Journal, vol. 16, no.2, December 2019: 115-139.

2019                “The Baganda in British Colonial Clientage, 1890-1914”, Ibadan Journal of History, backdated edition, vol.2, no.2 (2014/2015), 47-65.

2019                History of Avenor: AD 1000 – 1930, Cape Coast, Marcel Hughes. [Book]

2018                “Early Avenor-Ewe People: Migrations and Settlements”, Transactions of the Historical Society of Ghana, new series, no. 18, 2018: 87-140.

2018                “The Crowther Commission in Ewe History”, Ilorin Journal of History and International Studies, vol. 8, no.1, 2018:  93-112.

2016                Exactions of Colonial Governing: Workplace Anguish and Pleasure in Northern Nigeria, Accra, Woeli Publishing Services. [Book]

2015                “Language of Power: Pidgin in Colonial Governance of Northern Nigeria”, Legon Journal of Humanities, vol. 26, 2015: 19-37.

2015                “Fort Prindzenstein: A Monument in the Identity of Keta-Someawo”, Ghana Studies, vol.18, 2015: 3-21. [Originally presented at international conference, “The Shadows of Empire: a study of European Colonial Forts and Castles”, Yiri Lodge, Institute of African Studies, University of Ghana, Legon - Accra, 1 – 2 August 2012].

2014                “Dispensing Justice for Agent Hassan in Northern Nigeria”, Ibadan Journal of Humanistic Studies, vol.24, April 2014: 179-194.

2014                “Specialty in Colonial Governance: The Place of Political Agents in Northern Nigeria”, Journal of History and Diplomatic Studies, vols. 10 & 11, 2014: 1-16.

2013                “Beginnings of Ewe and Asante Weaving”, Transactions of the Historical Society of Ghana, new series, no.15, 2013: 27-38. 

2012                “Reforms in Katsina and Kano Government Crisis of 1908”, Research Review, NS, vol.27 no.2: 75-111.

2010                “Book Review – Femi J. Kolapo and Kwabena O. Akurang-Parry, eds., African Agency and European Colonialism: Latitudes of Negotiation and Containment. Lanham, Maryland: University Press of America, 2007”, Canadian Journal of African Studies, vol.44, no.1, 2010: 199-201.

2009                “Ambiguities of Colonial Law: The Case of Muhammadu Aminu, Former Political Agent and Chief Alkali of Kano”, History in Africa, vol.36: 17-52.

2008                Brokering Colonial Rule: Political Agents in Northern Nigeria, 1886-1914, Saarbrucken, Germany,Verlag Dr. Muller. [Book]

2008                “Spoken Reminiscences of Political Agents in Northern Nigeria II”, History in Africa, vol.35: 25-62.

2007                “Egalitarian in Colonial Administration: Ma’ajin Kano, Muhammadu Auta (1852-1922), Transactions of the Historical Society of Ghana, new series, no.10, 2006-2007: 197-213. 

2007                “Spoken Reminiscences of Political Agents in Northern Nigeria I”, History in Africa, vol.34: 1-30.

2004                “The Semolika Expedition of 1904: a Participant’s Account”, History in Africa, vol.31: 1-18.

1994                “Adamu Jakada's Intelligence Reports”, Sudanic Africa, vol.5: 185-223.