Joshua Awienagua Gariba

Skype: Joshua.Gariba

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EDUCATION BACKGROUND
PhD in Social and Cultural Anthropology, Catholic University of Louvain, Belgium. 2015
MA in Cultures and Development Studies, Catholic University of Louvain, Belgium. 2005
MA in Social and Cultural Anthropology, Catholic University of Louvain, Belgium. 2004
Certificate in Clinical Pastoral Education. 2000
Diploma in Religious Studies, University of Ghana, Legon. 1997

JOB/PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCES
Lecturer: Sociology Department, University of Ghana, Accra Since August, 2018
Director: January, 2016 -December, 2018
Tamale Institute of Cross Cultural Studies, Tamale
Responsible for the overall day to day functioning of the institute
Guest Lecturer in Social Anthropology:
St. Victor’s Major Seminary, Tamale January, 2016 – June, 2017
St. Peter and Paul Pastoral and Social Institute, WA January, 2016 – June, 2017
In St. Victor Major Seminary, Tamale and St. Peter and Paul Pastoral and Social Institute,
Wa, I taught Sociology, Anthropology and African Traditional Religion.
 

Current Research
I am currently researching on the Agency of youth in the protracted land conflict between the
people of Nkonya and Alavanyo in Ghana.

Publications
(2012) Rediscovering the Blessings of Priestly Fraternity - Ecce Sacerdos, Vol. 1, no. (3).
(2015) Contestations, Forest Resources and the Politics of Boundaries: The Evolution and
Dynamics of the Nkonya-Alavanyo Land Dispute in Ghana – Legon Journal of Sociology,
Vol. 5 (2): 33-58, University of Ghana, Legon

(2017) Appropriating Land, Worldviews, and Spiritual Navigation: The Dynamics and Praxis
of Everyday Life in the Alavanyo-Nkonya Land Dispute in Ghana – Anthropos, Vol. 122,
Sankt Augustin, Germany.

(2017) The Nkonya-Alavanyo Land Dispute in Ghana: Land Struggle, Power And
The Challenges of Belonging, Accra: Yamens Press Limited
Presentations
Sustainable Peace and Development at large: A search for cultural paths and conflict
resolution in land conflicts in Ghana – Presented at the Annual interfaculty research week in
KU Leuven, Belgium (2014).

Coping with uncertainty: The dynamics of youth agency in the Nkonya-Alavanyo land
dispute in Ghana – Paper presented at the Annual Conference of the Africa Studies
Association (ASA) in Indianapolis, USA, (2014).

Local processes, court verdicts and state interventions: The politics of Colonial and Post-
Colonial efforts to resolve the Nkonya-Alavanyo land dispute – Paper presented to PhD
students at the Institute of African Studies, University of Ghana, Legon, (2016).

Autochthony, Borders and the Challenges of Belonging: The Politics of Everyday Difference
in a Protracted Land dispute in Southern Ghana - A paper presented at the bi-annual Ghana
Studies Association (GSA) conference at the University of Cape Coast, (July 2016).

“Be strong if you have to eat”: Land Conflicts and Youth Agency in Ghana -
A paper presented at the 3 rd Triennial Conference of the Ghana Studies Association (GSA) at
the University of Ghana, Legon, (July 2019).