About

Professor Emmanuel Ababio Ofosu-Mensah is an Economic and Social Historian with a special interest in mining in West Africa and issues in migration in the West African sub-region. He is an alumnus of the University of Ghana and has published extensively in various peer-reviewed academic journals such as Africa Today, Journal of African History, Journal of Asian and African Studies, International Journal of African Historical Studies, and the Journal of West African History. Professor Ofosu-Mensah Ababio is also a Nova Science publisher and the titles of his current books are The Slippery Paths of Commemoration and Heritage Tourism: The History of Gomoa Nsuaem and Its Slave Route (2024) and Economic, Social and Political Impact of Mining in Akyem Abuakwa from the pre-colonial era up to 1943 (2017). 

Research Interest

Economic History

Publications

Project Title: Pre-Colonial Gold Mining in Banda
PIs: Prof Emmanuel Ofosu-Mensah and Edmund Smith
Funder: University of Manchester
 

Recent Publications
Ofosu-Mensah E.A (2024), The Slippery Paths of Commemoration and Heritage Tourism: The History of Gomoa Nsuaem and Its Slave Route. Nova Science Publishers.
Martha Aliba and Ofosu-Mensah E.A (2024), A Historical Exploration Of Women’s Production Of Fante Kenkey At Yamoransa In Ghana’s Central Region. Cogent Arts and Humanities
Ofosu-Mensah E.A (2023) Traditional Gold Mining In Akyem Abuakwa In Ghana’s Eastern Region. Sustainable Extraction And Processing Of Raw Materials Journal, Vol. 4, August 10.
Ofosu-Mensah E.A (2021). Transformation of Artisanal Small –Scale Mining (ASM) in Ghana: From Pre-Colonial to the Modern Era. The Journal of African Policy Studies, Volume 27, No.1, 2021.
Ofosu-Mensah, E. A. (2019). The Politics of Property Rights: The Case of Akyem Abuakwa, Ghana (1912–1943). Journal of West African History, 5(1), 83-113. ISSN 2327-1868.