About

Dr Mitja Potocnik is a lecturer at the History Department, University of Ghana, Legon. He completed his Master of Philosophy (MPhil) degree in history at the University of Ghana, Legon, with a dissertation titled “A History of Death and Funeral Rites: A Case Study of the Ga in Jamestown, Ghana” (2017). His doctoral (PhD) thesis, completed at the same university, with a title “Ghana – Yugoslavia Relations 1959 – 1991” (2022), discusses Ghana’s political, economic, scientific and educational relations with the former Yugoslavia. His research focuses on international relations and cultural, social, and micro-histories of Europe and Africa. 

Research Interest

Social history

Publications

Project Title: “Memory Activism in Africa: Reflections on Anticolonial Struggles, Genocides and Political Movements”
PI(s): Lungile Tshuma, Mphathisi Ndlovu, Ngozika Obi-Ani and Khanyile Mlotshwa
Name of funding institution: Amsterdam University Press
 

Recent Publications:
Potocnik, M., Adum-Kyeremeh, K. (2021). Ga Death and Funeral Rites: Custom in an African City. Ibadan Journal of History (IJH) 4 & 5, 49-69. 
Potocnik, M., Adum-Kyeremeh, K. (2022). Transformation of Ga Death and Funeral Rites in Accra, Ghana. Africa Today 68(3), 89-106.