About

I was appointed as Lecturer as the University of Ghana in August 2007. In August 2017 I was appointed as the Coordinator of the Russian Section of the Department of Modern Languages now Department of European Languages. My areas of special competence are translation, peace keeping and refugee studies.

Education

I attended Voronezh State University from 1986 to1987 were I earned a Preparatory faculty Certificate. I continued to the Kuban State University. Krasnodar, Russia, from 1987 to1992, where I earned an MA in Philology. I also hold a PhD in Philology from the Pushkin State Russian Language Institute. Moscow, Russia from 1994-1998. 

Research Interest

• Methodological Problems in Teaching Translation.
• The Problem of Dialects in Oral Translation.
• Semantics and Translation.
• The problem of Equivalence in translation.
• Globalization and Modern Languages.
• Globalization and Translation.
• The socio-linguistics problems facing refugees and Immigrants
• Russian history, politics culture and civilization

Publications

Journal Articles
1)  Boasiako, A.A. (2016). Resisting Globalization through Grammatical Tools: Using Some Aspects of Russian Grammar as a Case Study. Problems of Education: Languages and Specialty, Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia, Moscow. (2016 Issue 4) pp.24-39.  URL: http://journals.rudn.ru/polylinguality/article/view/14657

2) Boasiako, A.A. (2016). Introducing Translation Skills to level 200 students of Russian. A case study, University of Ghana. Bulletin of People’s Friendship University, Psychology and Pedagogics, (2016 No.1) pp.113-118, Moscow.
      URL: http://journals.rudn.ru.psychology-pedagogics/article/view/13417

Book chapters (published)
3) Boasiako, A.A. (2018). Absolute Equivalence in the Translation Process: A developing theory. (Ed.) Peter Quartey, Samuel Agyei-Mensah, Samuel Nii Ardey Codjoe, Abdul Baasit Aziz Bamba. Multidisciplinary Perspectives on Transformation in Africa, (pp.302-336). Accra: Sub-Saharan Publishers.
4) Boasiako, A.A. & Acheampong, G.A. (2016). Religious Tolerance in the Russian Federation and Ghana: State Policies and Inter- Religious Relations. (Ed.) Daniel Berchie, Daniel Kwame Bediako, and Dziedzorm Reuben Asafo. The Bible, Cultural Identity and Missions (pp. 151-169).  Newcastle: Cambridge Scholarly Publishing.

5)  Boasiako, A.A. (2016). The Degree of Equivalence in Matthew chapter 27:40 to chapter 28: using Russian, English and Akan lexical items as a case study. (Ed.) Daniel Berchie, Daniel Kwame Bediako, and Dziedzorm Reuben Asafo. The Bible, Cultural Identity and Missions (pp. 288-302). Newcastle: Cambridge Scholarly Publishing.

CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS:

1) Boasiako, A.A. (2012). How Translation Mirrors Pushkin’s Deep in Siberia Mines in the Publications of the Conference Proceedings 2012 Hawaii International Conference on Social Sciences.  CDROM CISS#1539-7300. Honolulu Hawaii, USA

2)  Boasiako, A.A. (1998). Lexical Deficit in the Translation of Political Lexis in Russian, English and Akan Passages, in the Publications with the theme, “Language, Culture and Society”, pages 119-124, Moscow.

3)  Boasiako, A.A. (1997). Specifics of Russian Political Lexis in a Context when Translating Political Passages in Russian, English and Akan, in the Publications on the Conference under the theme “Russian Language for Foreigners, Linguistics Problems,” Moscow, pages 251-256.

4) Boasiako, A.A. (1997).  Peculiarities of Russian Political Lexis in English, Russian and Akan Passages in the Publications on the Conference under the theme “Peculiarities in Language, Culture and Mutual Understanding, page 271-273, Lvov, Ukraine.

  
OTHER CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS

1) Boasiako, A.A. (2004) Post Conflict Peace Building and Educational Development with Special reference to Iraq and Afghanistan in the Publications on the Conference organized by UNESCO on Education and the development of the regions based on the recommendations of UNESCO (Seoul + 5) Moscow, pp.51-53.
2) Boasiako, A.A.(2003) Using the knowledge of the Young Scholar for Global Development and Peace in the publications on the conference organized by UNESCO, under the theme using the knowledge of the Young Scholar for Scientific and Educational Development pages 76- 79, Moscow.

Other publications:

1) Boasiako, A.A.   (1990). The Oracle of Our Ancestors we Adore in American Poetry Anthology, Volume X, Number 1, page 235, published by Robert Nelson, Santa Cruz, California, 1990.
2) Boasiako, A.A. (1995). “Economic Refugees” Moscow Times, 11th March.
3) Boasiako, A.A.  (2001). “Half a Century of Refugee Aid” in West Africa Magazine, 13th-19th August, London, pages 17-18.
4) Boasiako, A.A.  (2002). “Africa Refugee Crisis in a Changing World”, Published     in the Voice Magazine, Almere, Netherlands, pages 22-23, August Editions, continued in pages 22-23, September edition.
5) Boasiako, A.A.  (2003). “The Socio-Political Conditions in the European Union and the Right of Refugees”, in the Publications of the Conference Proceedings, 2003 Hawaii International Conference on Social Sciences, Honolulu.
6) Boasiako, A.A.  (2005). “The Changes that occurred in the International Political Arena in the last decade and how it influenced the UN Security Council in the maintenance of peace and stability” in the publications  on the 10th International Conference of Africanists, Moscow, 24th to 26th May, under the theme “Security for Africa, Internal and External Aspects”.