About

Dr Nana Yaw Boampong Sapong is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of History, University of Ghana, Legon. He specialises in 18th to 21st century social history of West Africa, with reference to Ghana, labour, social movements, and university studies. He teaches graduate and undergraduate courses in African history, political and social movements, theory and methods, and historiography. Nana Sapong is a lifetime member of the Ghana Studies Association (of the African Studies Association, USA) and an editor of the Ghana Studies journal. He is also a creative writer and has written for The ACU Review (Association of Commonwealth Universities).

Research Interest

Social History (Labour and Social Movements)

Publications

Project Title: “Where Have the Workers Gone? Labour and Work in Ghana, 1951-2010,”
PI(s): Gareth Austin, Andreas Eckert, Akua Britwum, Nana Yaw Boampong Sapong and Lamine Doumbia
Funder: Arts and Humanities Research Council, UK (AHRC) and the German Research Foundation (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft DFG) Partnership.
 

Recent Publications:
Sapong, N.Y.B. (2024). 1966 and the foreshortening of Ghana’s history. Ghana Studies, 27.
Sapong, N.Y.B. (2023). The contentious Ghanaian: A historical appraisal of social movements in Ghana. History Compass, 21(6), e12778.
Sapong, N.Y.B. & Amoako, P.O. (2021). Women in universities in Africa. In: O. Yacob-Haliso & T. Falola (eds.) The Palgrave handbook of African women’s studies (pp. 2393 – 2408). Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. ISBN 978-3-030-28098-7.
Aziato, L., Amoah-Boampong, C., Sapong, N.Y.B., Antwi-Boasiako, S., Akuffo, E., & Asare-Allotey, A. (2022). A history of the Ghana Registered Nurses and Midwives Association, 1960-2020: Changes and continuities. Accra: Sub-Saharan Publishers. ISBN 9789988917197.
Sapong, N.Y.B. (2021). Encountering the state in the shadow of Boahen’s sphinx: Revisiting the culture of silence and repertoires of contention in Ghana, 1976 – 1992. Transactions of the Historical Society of Ghana, 20, 93-112.