Three years into the project, an evaluation was conducted by a delegation from the Foundation, upon the project team's request to extend funding to cover the entire study period of students pursuing PhD degrees at the University of Ghana. Following the successful evaluation of the project, which took place in May 2023, the Foundation’s board has approved funding for the fourth year for the existing three cohorts of students and extended the project to run for ten (10) years with a budget of about USD 3.7m.
A total of 10 students from the Sub-Saharan Africa region would be trained under the project annually with University of Ghana as the sub-regional hub for training PhD scholars in the historical humanities (History, Archaeology, Historical Islamic Studies, Art History, Philosophy, History of Law, History of Science, Prehistory and Early History, Study of Religions, Classics and other disciplines with historical component). The project will fund students’ tuition, accommodation, travel, research and stipend for the four-year PhD programme at UG.
The project is led by Prof. Kwame Offei and Prof. Samuel Agyei-Mensah, coordinated by Mr. Benedict Fosu Adjei and assisted by Ms. Barbara Acquah.
The project team wishes to take the opportunity to acknowledge the immense support received from the Vice-Chancellor, Professor Nana Aba Appiah Amfo for receiving the evaluation team and supporting the case made by the project team. We also recognize the support of the Office of Research, Innovation and Development, Deans of School of Graduate Studies, International Programmes, the School of Arts, Director of the Institute of African Studies and Heads of Department in the College of Humanities, where the existing students are currently pursuing their studies.
