Prof Wazi Apoh

Full Professor of Archaeology, Anthropology and Heritage Studies

Contact info wapoh@ug.edu.gh

About

About:
Prof Wazi Apoh is Full Professor of Archaeology, Anthropology and Heritage Studies in the Department of Archaeology and Heritage Studies (DAHS). He has also been the Dean of the School of Arts, College of Humanities from 2021 to present.  His specialty is in the fields of African archaeology, museology/heritage development, forensic archaeology, development archaeology/anthropology, archaeology of slavery, and archaeology of German missionization and colonization of ‘Togoland’. He also interrogates issues of reparative justice, restitution and repatriation of looted and illegally acquired African objects in Euro-American museums. He holds a BA degree (Archaeology with History) and MPhil degree (Archaeology) from the University of Ghana. He also holds a doctoral degree (Archaeological Anthropology) from University of Binghamton, New York. He conducted his Senior Postdoctoral Fellowship under Volkswagen Foundation Grant for Humanities in Africa at the University of Ghana and University of Western Cape, South Africa. Prior to his appointment at the University, he worked as an Adjunct Assistant Professor/Frederick Douglass Teaching Scholar at the Department of Anthropology, Bloomsburg University in the USA. He was Head of Department of DAHS between 2016 and 2018 and two-time President of the West African Archaeological Association (WAAA) between 2015 and 2019. He served as Treasurer of the Pan African Archaeological Society (PANAF) between 2018 and 2022. 

His research projects are: Akpini Restitution and Reparation Requests Project; the Gonja (Buipe/Salaga) Archaeological Project; Coastal Volta Enslaved Route Project (CVERP); Archaeology of Slavery in the Southern Volta Areas of Ghana Project; Palace and Community Slave Museum Projects at Adafienu, Hedzranawo, Denu and Aflao in the Volta Region of Ghana; Marine Drive Salvage Archaeology Project; Archaeology of German Missionary and Colonial Heritage in the Volta Project; the Tamale Dabari Archaeological Project, as well as  varied Salvage Archaeology and Cultural Heritage Management projects. 

He was the convenor of the first MIASA sponsored conference in 2018 on the Theme: Issues of Restitution and Repatriation of Looted and Illegally Acquired African Objects in European Museums. Proceeding from this conference were published in as co-edited Special Issue. Contemporary Journal of African Studies 7. He also has many outstanding publications to his credit. Key ones are Revelations of Domination and Resilience: Unearthing the Buried Past of the Akpinis, Akans, Germans and British at Kpando, Ghana. Sub-Saharan Publishers, Accra (2019) and Concise Anthropology: The Five-Field Approach (2010). His co-edited books include ‘Germany and Its West African Colonies: “Excavations” of German Colonialism in Post-Colonial Times.’ (With B. Lundt; 2013) and also ‘Current Perspectives on the Archaeology of Ghana,’ (with J. Anquandah and B. Kankpeyeng; 2014). Two of his major articles are: Mainstreaming the Discourse on Restitution and Repatriation within African History, Heritage Studies and Political Science. Special Issue. Contemporary Journal of African Studies 7 (1): 1-15 (with A. Mehler: 2020); and “Shit, Blood, Artefacts and Tears: Interrogating the Cape Coast Castle Slave Dungeon Residues’’ Special Issue of the Journal of African Diaspora Archaeology and Heritage. 7(2) 105-130 (with J. Anquandah and M. Amenyo-Xa: 2019.). His consultancy works include local and international partnership projects at 30 sites over the last 15 years. He has curated a number of local and international exhibitions. In partnership with the German Archaeological Institute, he Co-curator the ongoing international “Planet Africa Exhibitions’ being exhibited in seven countries (i.e., Ghana, Germany, Morrocco, Kenya, Tanzania, Eswatini and Mozambique). 

Websites:

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            https://pure.ug.edu.gh/en/persons/ray-wazi-apoh-2/publications/

 

Education

  • 2008      Doctor of Philosophy Degree in Archaeological Anthropology (PhD)        Binghamton University, NY, USA
  • 2001       Master of Philosophy Degree in Archaeology (M.Phil)                                University of Ghana, Legon
  • 1997       Bachelor of Arts (BA) Honours Degree in Archaeology with History         University of Ghana, Legon                                            (Second Class Upper Division)      

 

RESEARCH AND EXTENSION PROJECTS UNDERTAKEN

  • January 2015-Present: Co-Director of the Gonja (Buipe) Archaeological Project. A collaborative archaeological project between the Department of Archaeology and Heritage studies, University of Ghana, Legon and the Department of Archaeology and Population in Africa Laboratory, University of Geneva, Switzerland.
  • March/2020-Present: Principal Investigator of Gerda Henkel Funded Patrimonies projects, Projects include the Rehabilitation of the 1865 Bremen Mission Building at Ho-Kpodzi into a Multipurpose Center (Museum, library, bookshop, after school craft village).
  • May/2019-Present: Project facilitator: research, rediscovery, rehabilitation and conservation of the slave histories, archaeology and relics at the Three-Town sites of southeastern coast of Ghana. Also includes the creation of the Hedzranawo Slavery Museum. Hedzranawo-Adzido Slave Market Memorial Centre and the Adafienu Palace Slave Museum.
  • 2020-2024: Advisory Board Member: Reciprocal, Interdisciplinary and Transparent: Provenance Research with a Restitution Perspective in a Colonial Context. The project focuses on the Appropriate Handling of a Collection of Human Remains by using the Example of the Alexander Eckert Collection in Freiburg. Sponsored by German Lost Arts Foundation. Germany
  • June 2018-2024: Principal Investigator of Marine Drive Salvage Archaeology Project. This focused on the salvage archaeology at the Marine Drive Project Site to enhance heritage research and ecotourism. This initiative was under the Accra Marine Drive Office. It was also supported by the UG. College of Humanities’ ‘Reinvigorating Humanities Research at the University of Ghana Mellon Funded Project.’
  • August 2018-2022: Co-Investigator of SSHRC Partnership Development Grant, Canada. In partnership with the University of Victoria. This was executed through workshops, online training and hands-on learning. The project built on a community of practice grounded in diverse literacies inclusive of Ghanaian archaeologists, heritage practitioners and Ghanaian and Canadian students (with particular focus on the Department of Archaeology and Heritage Studies & Ghana National Museum).
  • Nov/2020-10/2021: Co-Principal Investigator of Gerda Henkel Funded Patrimonies project. This focused on the renovation and equiping the Ho-PRAAD archival repositories and offices with state-of-the-art equipment. This was done in partnership with Dr. Amy Asimah (then of the E.P. University College, HO)
  • October 2017-December 2021: Co-Investigator of Anti-Slavery Knowledge Network: Community-Led Strategies for Creative and Heritage-Based Interventions in Sub-Saharan Africa.’ It was a Partnership Research Project between the Department of Archaeology and Heritage Studies, the University of Liverpool, University of Hull, University of Nottingham and the Liverpool Slavery Museum.
  • August-December 2014: Co-directed a comparative anthropological research project on impact of mining on customary law and heritage resources with K. Wissing, Dr. W., Treasure, and Dr. J., Fardin of University of Western Australia. The project sites included the Newmont-Akyem and Anglogold Ashanti Obuasi mine impacted communities in Ghana and the Northern Star mine impacted community of Wiluna in Western Australia           

Publications

Books

  • Apoh, W. (2019). Revelations of Domination and Resilience: Unearthing the Buried Past of the Akpinis, Akans, Germans and British at Kpando, Ghana. Sub-Saharan Publishers, Accra
  • Apoh, W. (2010). Concise Anthropology: The Five-Field Approach. Kendall/Hunt Publishers Ltd. USA. ISBN: 9780757572456

Edited Books

  • J. Anquandah, B. Kankpeyeng & Wazi Apoh (Eds). (2014). Current Perspectives on the Archaeology of Ghana. A Department of Archaeology and Heritage Studies Reader. Sub-Saharan Publishers. Accra. ISBN 9789988647988.
  • Apoh, W and Lundt, B (Eds). (2013). Germany and Its West African Colonies: “Excavations” of German Colonialism in Post-Colonial times. Lit Verlag, Berlin.  ISBN 9783643903037

Edited Special Issues Journal

  • Apoh, W. and A. Mehler, Eds (2020). Issues of Restitution and Repatriation of Looted and Illegally Acquired African Objects in European Museums. Special Issue in the Contemporary Journal of African Studies 7(1-128).

Book Chapters

  • Apoh, W., Fiador, E.K., Franken, C., Hartl-Reiter, C., Kleinitz, C., Kühlem, A., Linstädter, J., Meinhardt, U., Moser, J., Nyarko, E.A., Reepmeyer, C., Reindel, M., Rotgänger, M., de Saxcé, A., Schepers, C., Sigl, J. and Weniger, G.-C.(2025) “e-Jahresbericht 2024 des Deutschen Archäologischen Instituts – KAAK”, e-Jahresberichte des DAI, pp. 238–257. doi:10.34780/sec3e560.
  • Cornelia Kleinitz, Wazi Apoh, Ernest K. Fiador, Dietmar Kurapkat, Jörg Linstädter, Kathrin Loges, Ute Verstegen, Annika Zeitler (2024). Kpando, Volta Region, Ghana. Archaeology and ‘Shared Heritage’ of German Colonialism in Former Togoland. Research in 2022 and 2023. E-Forschungs Berichte des Deutschen Archaeologisches Instituts. Bonn/Berlin. https://doi.org/10.34780/06b8-361b
  • Wazi Apoh and Benedicta Gokah (2023). Die dänische Kolonialherrschaft an der Ostküste Ghana. Historische und ethnoarchäologische Betrachtungen. InDie dänischen Kolonien. Geschichte und koloniale Verantwortung“,Florian Jungmann and Martin Krieger (Eds)
  • Ethnoarchaeological Interrogations of Danish Imperialism in the Eastern Coast of Ghana. In Florian Jungmann and Martin Krieger (Eds) A History of the Former Danish Colonies.
  • Wazi Apoh & Victoria Ndidi Osuagwu. (2022). ‘Nothing about Us, Without Us’: Heritage, Development and Communities in West Africa. In (Eds) George Okello Abungu and Webber Ndoro. Cultural Heritage Management in Africa: The Heritage of the Colonized. ISBN 9781003199144. Routledge.
  • Apoh, W. (2020). “If Suitable Enforce the Death Penalty”: German Solution to Facilitating Colonial Rule in Kete-Krachi. In S. Ntewusu and N. Paarman (eds), Beyond Dichotomies: Aspects of History, Gender and Culture in Africa and Europe. Lit Verlag. Belin. Pg 443-442.
  • Apoh, Wazi. (2016a). Ruins Relics and Research: Lasting Evidence and Perceptible Consequences of the Prussian and German Colonial Past in Ghana. In Deutscher Kolonialismus: Fragmente seiner Geschichte und Gegenwart. German Historical Museum Special Exhibition on German Colonialism.92-99. THEISS. Berlin.  
  • Apoh, Wazi. (2016b). Ein Postkolonialer Blick. Die Deutsche Präsenz im Westlichen Togo zwischen 1884 und 1914. In Heikles Erbe. Koloniale Spuren bis in die Gegenwart. edited by Alexis von Poser & Bianca Baumann, 174-183. Dresden: Sandstein Verlag. (Hannover State Museum Special Exhibition Catalogue).
  • Apoh W and Kodzo Gavua. (2016). “We Will Not Relocate until Our Ancestors and Shrines Come with Us.” Heritage and Conflict Management in the Bui Dam Project Area, Ghana. In Peter Schmidt, and Innocent Pikirayi (eds), Community Archaeology and Heritage in Africa: Decolonizing Practice. Pg 204-249. Routledge
  • Apoh, W. (2015). Die Interdisziplinäre Kombination von Schriftquellen, Oral History, Ethnographie und Achäologie. Eine Studie über das koloniale Erbe Deutschlands in Kpando und andere kolonialzeitliche Stätten in der ehemaligen Kolonie Togoland. In Zwichen Welterbe und Denkmalalltage-erhalten, Erschliessen, Engagieren, Dokumentation der Jahrestagung. Landesdenkmalamt Berlin. URN:nbn:de:101:1-201504024953. Pg 300-308
  • J. Anquandah, B. Kankpeyeng & Apoh, W. (2014). Archaeology of Ghana: An Introduction In J. Anquandah, B. Kankpeyeng and W. Apoh (eds). Current Perspectives on the Archaeology of Ghana. A Department of Archaeology and Heritage Studies Reader. Sub-Saharan Publishers. Accra. Pp 1-18.
  • Atsutse, K and Apoh, W. (2014). A Study of the Akan and Ewe Kente Weaving Traditions: Implications for the Establishment of a Kente Museum in Ghana. Co-author Mr. Kennedy Atsutse. In J. Anquandah, B. Kankpeyeng and W. Apoh (eds) Current Perspectives on the Archaeology of Ghana. A Department of Archaeology and Heritage Studies Reader. Sub-Saharan Publishers. Accra. Pp 222-244.
  • Apoh, W. (2014). Embroideries of Imperialism: An Archaeo-Historical Overview of Akwamu, Asante, German and British Imperial Hegemonies at Kpando, Ghana.  In J. Anquandah, B. Kankpeyeng and W. Apoh (eds) Current Perspectives on the Archaeology of Ghana. A Department of Archaeology and Heritage Studies Reader Pp 164-181. Sub-Saharan Publishers. Accra.
  • Apoh, Wazi. (2013b). “Archaeology and Heritage Development: Repackaging German/British Colonial Relics and Residues in Kpando, Ghana” In Wazi Apoh and Beatrice Lundt, (Eds) Germany and Its West African Colonies: “Excavations” of German Colonialism in Post-Colonial Times. Pp 29-55. Lit Verlag, Germany. 

Refereed Journal Articles

  •  Apoh, Wazi, and Amartey, Samuel.  (2024) “History of Archaeology in Ghana.” In Oxford Research Encyclopedia of African History. Oxford University Press. Article published January 30, 2024; doi: https://doi.org/10.1093/acrefore/9780190277734.013.1378.
  • Asare, M.O., Apoh, Wazi., Afriyie, J.O. Száková, J & Asrade , D. A. 2023. Human-altered soils — Signatures of Anthrosols and their potential for arable lands. Soil Ecology Letters. 5, 220164. https://doi.org/10.1007/s42832-022-0164-0
  • Boateng K., Esther Attiogbe, Boadi Caleb, Ann Stahl, Wazi Apoh, Wendy Frimpong (2022). Using Africa’s Past to Promote Change Towards Safer Alternatives for food Packaging in Accra. Cogent Social Sciences, 8:1,  DOI: 10.1080/23311886.2022.2137962
  • Apoh, W. 2022. Commentary on "The Politics of Knowledge Production" [Thondhlana et al.]. African Archaeological Review 39, pages 469–471. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10437-022-09491-9
  • Wazi Apoh and Mehler. 2021. Vom Rande aus betrachtet: Das Humboldt-Forum und die Restitutionsdebatte.WeltTrends: Das Aussenpolitiche Journal No 179 September. Pp 54-59
  • Viewed from the Edge: The Humboldt Forum and the Restitution Debate. WeltTrends: Das Aussenpolitiche Journal No 179 September. Pp 54-59
  • Apoh, Wazi. (2020). Why Forget US? Developing the Three-Town Enslaved Relics as Alternative Sites of Commemoration in Southeastern Ghana.  Azania: Archaeological Research in Africa, Vol. 55, No. 4, 458–474   
  • Apoh, Wazi. and A. Mehler. (2020). Introduction. In Apoh, W. and A. Mehler, Eds. Issues of Restitution and Repatriation of Looted and Illegally Acquired African Objects in European Museums. Special Issue in the Contemporary Journal of African Studies 7(1): IX-XII
  • Apoh,Wazi. and A. Mehler, (2020). Mainstreaming the Discourse on Restitution and Repatriation within African History, Heritage Studies and Political Science. Special Issue. Contemporary Journal of African Studies 7 (1): 1-15
  • Lamptey, P and Wazi. Apoh. (2020). The Restitution Debate and Return of Human Remains: Implications for Bioarchaeological Research and Cultural Ethics in Africa. Special Issue. Contemporary Journal of African Studies 7 (1): 121-128
  • Apoh,  Wazi. (2020). “Sankofatization and Decolonization: The Rapprochement of German Museums and Government with Colonial Objects and Postcolonialism” In Osborn Eds Special Issue “Evidence of the Transformation of Museum Practices" Journal of Museum Anthropology 45:1:29-44
  • Michael O. Asare, Wazi Apoh, Jerry Owusu Afriyie, Jan Horák, Ladislav Åmejda, Michal Hejcman (2020). Traces of German and British settlement in soils of the Volta Region of Ghana, Geoderma Regional, Volume 21, e00270,ISSN 2352-0094
  • Mohammed Mustapha and Wazi Apoh. (2019). The Influence of James Anquandah on the Development and Practice of Eclectic Archaeology in Ghana. Ghana Studies Journal. Volume 22, pp. 206-221
  • Wazi Apoh and Andreas Mehler. (2019). Restitution of Art Objects: Bringing in African Perspectives, in: TRAFO – Blog for Transregional Research, 06.02.2019, https://trafo.hypotheses.org/17811
  • Apoh,  Wazi., J. Anquandah and M. Amenyo-Xa. (2019). “Shit, Blood, Artefacts and Tears: Interrogating the Cape Coast Castle Slave Dungeon Residues’’ Special Issue "Landscapes of Slavery in Africa" of the Journal of African Diaspora Archaeology and Heritage. 7(2) 105-130.
  • Victoria Aryee & Wazi Apoh. (2018).  Climate Change and the Mitigating Tool of Salvage Archaeology: The Case of the Fort Kongensten Site of Ada Foah, Ghana. Legon Journal of the Humanities, 29(2) 81-115.
  • Apoh, Wazi. (2017). A Tribute to Professor James Robert Kwesi Anquandah, the Indigenous Trailblazer of Ghanaian Archaeology. Contemporary Journal of African Studies. 5(1)137-141
  • Genequand, D & Wazi Apoh. (2017). Old Buipe (Ghana, Northern Region): Some Observations on Islamisation and Urban Development at the South-Western Margins of the Dar al-Islam. Journal of Islamic Archaeology 4 (2) 139-162
  • Apoh, Wazi, K. Wissing W., Treasure, and J., Fardin. (2017). Law, Land and What Lies Beneath: Exploring Mining Impacts on Customary Law and Cultural Heritage Protection in Ghana and Western Australia. African Identities. 15(4), 367-389. Francis Taylor
  • Fardin, J., Treasure, Wazi Apoh, and K. Wissing. (2016). From Mabo to Obuasi: Mining, Heritage and Customary Law in Ghana and Western Australia, Journal of Energy & Natural Resources Law, Vol 34.No. 2, 191-211.
  • David Akwasi Mensah Abrampah, Wazi Apoh, Kodzo Gavua, Mark Henry Freeman, Samuel Amartey, David Adjartey Tei-Mensah & George Anokye. (2015). Assessing the Bui Dam Salvage Archaeology Project and Cultural Heritage of Impact Communities. Ethnographisch-archäologische Zeitschrift (EAZ), 56. Jg.,1/2: 275-294
  • F. Thackeray, Wazi Apoh, Kodzo Gavua. (2014). Adevu and Chiwara Rituals in West Africa Compared to Hunting Rituals and Rock Art in South Africa. South African Archaeological Bulletin 69 (199) 113-115
  • Apoh, Wazi. (2013a). “The Archaeology of German and British Colonial Entanglements in Kpando-Ghana” International Journal of Historical Archaeology. Volume 17, Number 2, 351-375
  • Gavua, K and Apoh, W. (2011). “Alternative Site Conservation Strategies in Ghana: The Adome Ancient Ironworking Site.” In Conservation and Management of Archaeological Sites, Vol. 13 Nos 2–3: 212–230
  • Apoh, Wazi and K. Gavua. (2010). “Material Culture and Indigenous Spiritism; The Katamansu Archaeological ‘Otutu’ (Shrine).” In African Archaeological Review. Volume 27 (3) 211-235 

Book Review

  • Apoh, Wazi (2011). Book Review of “African Homecoming: Pan-African Ideology and Contested Heritage by Katharina Schramm, Left Coast Press, Inc. Walnut Creek, California. In Journal of African Archaeology. Vol 9 (2): 239-241

Technical Research Project Reports

  • Wazi Apoh (2021) Final Report: Salvaging Endangered Slave Relics at the Three-Towns of Denu, Hedzranawo and Adafienu in the Southern Volta Areas of Ghana. Report prepared for Gerda Henkel Foundation, Germany.
  • Amy Asimah and Wazi Apoh (2021) Final Project Report (Az 34/Be/20): Renovation of Repository and Conservation of Archival Records at Ho Regional PRAAD Offices. Report prepared for Gerda Henkel Foundation, Germany.
  • Denis Genequand, Wazi Apoh, Marie Canetti,DLouis Champion, Samuel Gyam, Irka Hajdas, Fabien Maret, Christian de Reynier, and Isabelle Ruben (2020). Preliminary Report on the 2020 Season of the Gonja Project, Ghana. Swiss-Liechtenstein Foundation for Archaeological Research (SLSA) Jahresbericht 2019, Zürich, 267-312. SLSA.
  • Denis Genequand, Wazi Apoh, Kodzo Gavua, Marie Canetti, Louis Champion, Samuel Gyam, Irka Hajdas, Fabien Maret, Christian de Reynier, and Isabelle Ruben (2019). Preliminary Report on the 2019 Season of the Gonja Project, Ghana. Swiss-Liechtenstein Foundation for Archaeological Research (SLSA) Jahresbericht 2019, Zürich, 267-312. SLSA
  • Denis Genequand, Wazi Apoh, Kodzo Gavua, Samuel Gyam, Irka Hajdas, Deborah Locatelli, Fabien Maret, (2018).   Preliminary Report on the 2018 Season of the Gonja Project, (Ghana, Northern Ghana). In Swiss-Liechtenstein Foundation for Archaeological Research (SLSA) Jahresbericht 2018, Zürich, 267-312.
  • Denis Genequand, Wazi Apoh, Kodzo Gavua. (2017).  Preliminary Report on the 2017 Season of the Gonja Project, Northern Ghana. In Swiss-Liechtenstein Foundation for Archaeological Research (SLSA) Jahresbericht  2017, Zürich, 65-108.
  • Genequand, D, Wazi Apoh, Kodzo Gavua, Hugo Amoroso and Christian de Reynier. (2016).  Excavations in Old Buipe and Study of the Mosques of Bole (Ghana, Northern Region). In Swiss-Liechtenstein Foundation for Archaeological Research (SLSA) Jahresbericht. 2015, Pg 25-66.
  • Wazi Apoh, K. Wissing, W., Treasure, and J., Fardin. (May  2015): Action Research Report on Comparative Anthropological Research on Impact of Mining on Customary Law and Heritage Resources entitled “Customary Law and Mining: Comparing the Interaction between the Two in Ghana and Western Australia, with a Focus on Heritage.” Report Prepared for International Mining for Development Centre. Australia.
  • Apoh, Wazi. (December 2015). Second Year Postdoc Funding Project Report on ‘The Archaeology of German Colonial Heritages in Ghana: Repackaging Shared Relics for Strategic Ghana-German Partnership in Development.” Report Prepared for the Volkswagen Foundation. Germany.
  • Apoh, Wazi. (November 2014). First Year Postdoc Funding Project Report on ‘The Archaeology of German Colonial Heritages in Ghana: Repackaging Shared Relics for Strategic Ghana-German Partnership in Development.” Report Prepared for the Volkswagen Foundation. Germany.

Thesis/Dissertation

  • Apoh, Wazi. (2008) “The Akpinis and the Echoes of German and British Colonial Overrules: An Archaeology of Kpando, Ghana.” Ph.D  Dissertation, Department of Anthropology, Binghamton University, USA.
  • Apoh, Wazi. (2001) “An Archaeology of Katamansu, A Battlefield in the Accra Plains of Ghana”.  M.Phil Thesis, Department of Archaeology, University of Ghana.
  • Apoh, Wazi. (I997) “Cement Sculpturing and Religious Activities at the Kpando Marian Grottos in the Volta Region of Ghana”. B.A. Long Essay, Department of Archaeology, University of Ghana.

 

Exhibition Brochures

  • Apoh, Wazi. (2025). Planet Africa: Archaeological Time Travel Exhibition Brochure. Museum of Archaeology, University of Ghana (Permanent Exhibition: Ongoing).
  • Apoh, Wazi. (2025). Hedzranawo-Adzido Slave Market Memorial Centre Exhibition Brochure. Ketu South, Ghana. (Permanent Exhibition: Ongoing).
  • Apoh, Wazi. (November 2024). Volta-German Histories and Connections Special Exhibition Brochure. Volta Regional Museum, Ho. Ghana. (Permanent Exhibition: Ongoing)
  • Apoh, Wazi. (2023 and 2024) Hedzranawo Slavery Museum Exhibition Brochure. Ketu South, Ghana (Permanent Exhibition: Ongoing)
  • Apoh, Wazi. (September 2022), Salvage Archaeology and Marine Drive Heritage of Osu. Exhibition Brochure. Mobile Exhibition (Museum of Archaeology; University of Ghana; HACSA SUMMIT, Kempinski Hotel Lounge; Christiansburg Castle Showroom).
  • Apoh, Wazi, Benjamin Kankpeyeng and Mark Seyram Amenyo-XA (2021), Historical and Contemporary Forms of Enslavement. AN Anti-Slavery Knowledge Network Exhibition Brochure. Mobile Exhibition (Museum of Archaeology; University of Ghana, Nana Prempeh Museum, Kumasi; Hedzranawo Slavery Museum, Ketu South; Volta Regional Museum, Ho) (Permanent Exhibition: Ongoing).

Research And Extension Projects Undertaken

  • January 2015-Present: Co-Director of the Gonja (Buipe) Archaeological Project. A collaborative archaeological project between the Department of Archaeology and Heritage studies, University of Ghana, Legon and the Department of Archaeology and Population in Africa Laboratory, University of Geneva, Switzerland.
  • March/2020-Present: Principal Investigator of Gerda Henkel Funded Patrimonies projects, Projects include the Rehabilitation of the 1865 Bremen Mission Building at Ho-Kpodzi into a Multipurpose Center (Museum, library, bookshop, after school craft village).
  • May/2019-Present: Project facilitator: research, rediscovery, rehabilitation and conservation of the slave histories, archaeology and relics at the Three-Town sites of southeastern coast of Ghana. Also includes the creation of the Hedzranawo Slavery Museum. Hedzranawo-Adzido Slave Market Memorial Centre and the Adafienu Palace Slave Museum.
  • 2020-2024: Advisory Board Member: Reciprocal, Interdisciplinary and Transparent: Provenance Research with a Restitution Perspective in a Colonial Context. The project focuses on the Appropriate Handling of a Collection of Human Remains by using the Example of the Alexander Eckert Collection in Freiburg. Sponsored by German Lost Arts Foundation. Germany
  • June 2018-2024: Principal Investigator of Marine Drive Salvage Archaeology Project. This focused on the salvage archaeology at the Marine Drive Project Site to enhance heritage research and ecotourism. This initiative was under the Accra Marine Drive Office. It was also supported by the UG. College of Humanities’ ‘Reinvigorating Humanities Research at the University of Ghana Mellon Funded Project.’
  • August 2018-2022: Co-Investigator of SSHRC Partnership Development Grant, Canada. In partnership with the University of Victoria. This was executed through workshops, online training and hands-on learning. The project built on a community of practice grounded in diverse literacies inclusive of Ghanaian archaeologists, heritage practitioners and Ghanaian and Canadian students (with particular focus on the Department of Archaeology and Heritage Studies & Ghana National Museum).
  • Nov/2020-10/2021: Co-Principal Investigator of Gerda Henkel Funded Patrimonies project. This focused on the renovation and equiping the Ho-PRAAD archival repositories and offices with state-of-the-art equipment. This was done in partnership with Dr. Amy Asimah (then of the E.P. University College, HO)
  • October 2017-December 2021: Co-Investigator of Anti-Slavery Knowledge Network: Community-Led Strategies for Creative and Heritage-Based Interventions in Sub-Saharan Africa.’ It was a Partnership Research Project between the Department of Archaeology and Heritage Studies, the University of Liverpool, University of Hull, University of Nottingham and the Liverpool Slavery Museum.

  • August-December 2014: Co-directed a comparative anthropological research project on impact of mining on customary law and heritage resources with K. Wissing, Dr. W., Treasure, and Dr. J., Fardin of University of Western Australia. The project sites included the Newmont-Akyem and Anglogold Ashanti Obuasi mine impacted communities in Ghana and the Northern Star mine impacted community of Wiluna in Western Australia.

              

     DATE                                                    SOCIETY

  • 2024-Present       Global Humanities Network
  • 2021-Present        Africa Centre for Transregional Research (ACT), University of Freiburg
  • 2015-Present        Pan African Archaeological Association (PAA)  (Treasurer: 2018-2022)
  • 2018-Present        Heritage and Cultural Society of Africa (HACSA)
  • 2010-Present        West African Archaeological Association (WAAA) (Two-Time President :2014-2019)
  • 2015-Present       Ghana Studies Association
  • 2013-Present       Volkswagen Foundation Humanities Post-doc Fellows
  • 2011-Present       American Council of Learned Society (ACLS)
  • 2005-Present      Society of Africanist Archaeologists (SAfA)
  • 2010-Present       African Studies Association (ASA)
  • 2003-Present       New York State Africana Studies Association (NYASA)
  • 2002-Present       Institute of Humane Studies
  • 2001-Present       American Anthropological Association

Teaching Philosophy

This revolves around meaningful teaching of subject matter and productive exchange of ideas with students to find sustainable solutions to our common problems and to surmount our common intellectual challenges.