About

I graduated First Class Honours (B.A. Philosophy) and top of my graduating class at the University of Ghana. My long essay was written under the supervision of the eminent philosopher Prof. Kwame Gyekye.  I then proceeded to take my M.A. at the Legon Centre for International Affairs and Diplomacy. I earned my doctorate (Public Administration with a concentration in Policy Analysis) at Wuhan University, China. I did my post doctorate at the International Institute for Asian Studies (IIAS) at the University of Leiden, the Netherlands. While studying for my doctorate I took courses and was mentored by the noted theorist of the public policy process, the late Prof. Paul Sabatier, at the University of Southern Denmark, Odense, Denmark. I had a stint working at the Ghanaian Presidency. I have worked before as an associate editor of a newspaper (and co-editor of a magazine) and columnist/writer for notable locaI and international magazines(eg. BBC Focus on Africa Magazine, and Africa Report,https://www.theafricareport.com/) and newspapers. I have worked as well as a community organizer for a project in Nima for deprived urban communities. I taught at Ashesi University as an Assistant Professor for almost a decade before moving to the University of Ghana. I am currently Senior Lecturer at the Dept. of Political Science and simultaneously founding Director of the newly established Centre for Asian Studies at the University of Ghana, Legon, as well as Acting Director of the Centre for European Studies. I consider myself a public intellectual.

Education

• PhD (Public Administration with a concentration in Policy Analysis) - Wuhan University, China
• M.A. in International Relations - University of Ghana, Ghana
• B.A. in Philosophy - University of Ghana, Ghana

Research Interest

In terms of research I am interested in public policy formation theory, public strategy, Africa-Asia-China relations, the ties between public administration and African philosophy for  constructing  a new African Public Administration, Afromodern and Oppositional Political Theory,  e-governance and ICT policy in developing countries, the political-economy of space in developing polities; the politics of cocoa production in the Gold Coast.

Selected Publications

Books

• Amoah, L.G.A. (2014). Impacts of the knowledge society on economic and social growth in Africa. Hershey, PA: IGI Global.
• Amoah, L.G.A. (2018).#notesofapatriot: On Ghana, Asia, China, Fela, women, Zidane and more. Accra: University of Ghana Press.
• Amoah, L.G.A. (2020). Five Ghanaian presidents and China: patterns, pitfalls, and possibilities. Accra: University of Ghana Press.
• Amoah, L.G.A. (2021). Sixty years of Ghana-China relations : friendship, friction, and the future. Accra: Centre for Asian Studies and University of Ghana Press.

Book Chapters

• Amoah, L.G.A. (2011). Public policy formation in Africa in the wake of the global financial meltdown: Building blocks for a new mind in a multipolar world. In T. Dietz, K. Havnevik, M. Kaag, & T. Oestigaard (Eds.), African engagements: Africa negotiating an emerging multipolar world(pp. 327–345). Leiden: Brill.
• Amoah, L.G.A.(2012).Africa in China: affirming African agency in Africa-China relations at the people to people level. In J. Shikwati,(Ed.) China-Africa Partnership: The Quest for a win-win situation(104-116). Nairobi, Kenya: IREN.
• Amoah, L.G.A. (2013).Grey Hair, grey matter, and ICT policy in the Global South: The Ghana case. In M. Islam, & M. Ehsan (Eds.), From Government to e-governance: Public administration in the digital age (pp. 245-260). Hershey, PA: IGI Global.
• Amoah, L.G.A. (2014).The rise of Telcos and Africa's knowledge society: What Have Telchambs got to do with It? In L. Amoah (Ed.), Impacts of the knowledge society on economic and social growth in Africa (pp. 112-133). Hershey, PA: IGI Global.
• Amoah, L.G.A. (2015). Training for public service in Ghana in an evolving world: some suggestions for the future. In P. Haruna and S. Vyas-Doorgapersad (Eds.),   Public administration training and development in Africa: Competencies in development management.( pp. 83-105). Boca Raton, Florida:Taylor and Francis.
• Amoah, L.G.A.(2016). Economic Policy Formation in Ghana’s Fourth Republic: Is the Budgeting Process a Ritualized Anti-National Transformation Process.  In P. Haruna, P. and S. Vyas-Doorgapersad, S.(Eds.) , Public Budgeting in African Nation: Fiscal analysis in development management( pp.86-113). New York, Oxford: Routledge.
• Amoah, L.G.A. (2018). Africa-China relations and Africa’s strategic deficits. In K. Prah and V. Gumede (Eds.), Africa-China Partnerships and Relations: African Perspectives (pp.43-61). Trenton, New Jersey: Third World Press.
• Amoah, L.G.A. (2021). Introduction :Ghana, China, sixty years and the ghost of Emmanuel Hevi’s quandaries In L.G.A. Amoah(Ed.), Sixty years of Ghana-China relations : friendship, friction, and the future (pp.xi-xxvii). Accra: Centre for Asian Studies and University of Ghana Press.
• Amoah, L.G.A. (2021). Conclusion. In L.G.A. Amoah(Ed.), Sixty years of Ghana-China relations : friendship, friction, and the future (pp.263-268). Accra: Centre for Asian Studies and University of Ghana Press.
• Amoah, L.G.A. (2019). Six decades of Ghanaian statecraft and Asia relations: strategies, strains and successes. In J. R. Ayee(Ed.), Politics, governance, and development in Ghana(pp.147-166). Maryland: Lexington Books.
• Amoah, L.G.A. (2021). (Re)centring anti-Black Racism in Africa-China Relations. In L.G.A. Amoah(Ed.), Sixty years of Ghana-China relations : friendship, friction, and the future (pp.243-262). Accra: Centre for Asian Studies and University of Ghana Press.
• Amoah, L.G.A. (2021). Diplomacy of Architecture: Ghana, China, and 60 years of Spatial Engagement  In L.G.A. Amoah(Ed.), Sixty years of Ghana-China relations : friendship, friction, and the future (pp.87-114). Accra: Centre for Asian Studies and University of Ghana Press.

Book Reviews

• Amoah, L.G.A.(2012).Review of the book: African engagements:  Africa negotiating a multipolar world by T. Dietz, K. Havnevik, M. Kaag, & T. Oestigaard (Eds.).  African Affairs, 111 (444), 494-495.
• Amoah, L.G.A. (2017). Review of the book: The economy of Ghana sixty years after independence, by E. Aryeetey and R. Kanbur(Eds). African Affairs, 116(464), 546-547.

Academic Journal Articles

•  Amoah, L.G.A. (2008). A discourse on public sector reform in Ghana as postmodern symbolic politics(1983-2008). Ghana Policy Journal, 2, 93-110.
• Amoah, L.G.A.(2010). Emergent China, public policy theorizing and developing countries. Fudan Journal of the Humanities and Social Sciences, 3(3), 22-38.
• Amoah, L.G.A. (2010). Public policy formation in Africa: Towards a grounded ontology. Administrative Theory and Praxis, 32(4), 606-610.
• Amoah, L.G.A.(2010) and S. Armah. Media freedom and political stability in sub-saharan Africa(SSA): A panel data study. Journal of Economic Development, Management, IT, Finance and Marketing, 2(2), 41-67.
• Amoah, L.G.A (2012).Constructing a new public administration in Africa: Reflections on philosophical clarity and the process-orientation turn. Administrative Theory & Praxis, 34(3), 385–406.
• Amoah, L.G.A. (2016). China, architecture and Ghana’s spaces: Concrete signs of a soft Chinese imperium? Journal of Asian and African Studies, 51(2), 238–255.
• Amoah, L.G.A. (2019). General introduction: 40 Years of Ghana-Korea relations. Special Issue, African and Asian Studies, 18 (1&2), 1-5.
• Amoah, L.G.A. and K. Asante (2019). Ghana-Korea Economic Relations-The Record after 40 years and the Future.  Special Issue, African and Asian Studies (1 & 2), 6-39.
• Amoah, L.G.A. and L.N.L.Mills(2019). The Saemaŭl Undong Initiative (the Korean Rural Development Strategy) a Compelling Exemplar for Ghana? Special Issue, African and Asian Studies (1 & 2), 93-123.
• Amoah, L.G.A (2020). COVID-19 and the state in Africa: the state is dead, long live the state. Administrative Theory & Praxis, DOI: 10.1080/10841806.2020.1840902
• Amoah, L.G.A. and N. Quame (2021). Power-with and power-to and building Asian Studies in Africa: Insights from the field. Special Issue, African and Asian Studies, 20 (1 & 2), 200-222. https://doi.org/10.1163/15692108-12341489
• Amoah, L.G.A. (2021). Chinweizu, Asia’s rise and disentangling Africa’s strategic incoherence for Africa’s future. Special Issue, African and Asian Studies, 20(1 & 2), 154-178. https://doi.org/10.1163/15692108-12341487
• Amoah, L.G.A. (2021). Introduction to special issue on theme : “Chinweizu-over forty years of reflections on Africa, Asia and the world.” Special Issue, African and Asian Studies, 20 (1 & 2), 4-8.  https://doi.org/10.1163/15692108-12341481

            Selected Media Publications and Engagement

• 2021, Interview on Town Hall on Africa-China relations, https://asaaseradio.com/business/ghana-has-lost-opportunity-to-exploit-chinese-market-says-lloyd-amoah/
• 2021, Panelist, Point of View (Are Public Secondary Schools Fit for Purpose) , Citi TV
• https://citinewsroom.com/2021/04/its-absurd-to-mistrust-ghanas-educational-system-dr-lloyd-amoah/
• 2020, Interview on Public University Bill. Morning Starr, Starr FM
• https://www.ghanadailies.com/2020/12/16/withdraw-pub-its-inimical-to-academic-freedom-lloyd-amoah-to-govt/
• 2018, Panelist, Point of View (Dealing with China. The Good, the Bad and the Ugly), Citi TV
• https://twitter.com/CitiTVGH/status/1036686423318056961/photo/1
• 2017 Panelist on the Lounge, GH ONE TV
• 2017 Panelist, Support Commentary on Ghana’s 60 Years Anniversary
• 2015. Africa and the Unmasking of Asia http://www.iias.nl/the-newsletter/article/africa-and-unmasking-asia
• Columnist, The Globe newspaper(“ Trenches”), 2011-2012
•  Provided analysis on China-Africa relation on BBC’s World Today( June 27, 2011)
•  Contributor with Prof. Steven Chan on the Question(The Africa Report, No.31, June,2011.p.10)
• Columnist, Graphic Business ( “Asia 601,” arguably the first and only column on Asian-African Affairs in Africa and Ghana); 2008-2009.
•  Two columns in the Accra Daily Mail (City Blues and Evolution) from 1999-2003.
•  Numerous feature articles (on national policy, China, South East Asian and international affairs), reports and editorials for Accra Daily Mail.
•  Special feature on Palm Oil which appeared in the Daily Graphic in 2004(the largest circulating daily in Ghana); contracted for this work by award winning media house Channel 2 Communications.
•  Interviewed as a Africa-China expert for a special documentary on China-Africa Relations by the New York University Film Institute, 2010.
•  Hu’s Great Leap over Ghana and the Ghana- China Nexus (The Daily Graphic, 2006).
•  Ghana, FOCAC and the Chinese Dimension (Public Agenda newspaper, 2006).
•  China, Mandarin and J.B.Danquah (The Statesman newspaper, 2007).
•  Feature for the influential West Africa magazine on conflict resolution in West Africa (c.2004).
•  The ADB-STANBIC Merger: Beyond any Hysteria and Xenophobia with Kimathi K. Kuenyehia, Esq.  (Daily Graphic, October, 2007).
•  Money flows from the East [BBC Focus on Africa magazine, Jan.-March, 2007, 18(1): 44-46].
•  Letter from Wuhan (The Africa Report, Ghana and South African Edition, June –July, 2008, No. 11: 97).
•  At Confucius’ Feet (BBC Focus on Africa magazine, Oct.-Dec, 2008, 19(4):46).
•  Walking Tall (BBC Focus on Africa magazine, July-September, 2009, 20(3):30.).
• Africa-China: Planning for the Long Term (paper commissioned by Third World Network and published in the globally “African Agenda” magazine, Vol.13, No.1 &2, p.5-8, March, 2010).
•  Panelist, Youth Quake, youth programme (TV3, Accra, award winning TV station),1997.
•  Panelist, Morning Drive, magazine radio programme (Groove FM, Accra), 1997.
•  Panelist, Breakfast show (Unique FM, Accra, Ghana’s premier radio station, 1997).
•  Panelist, Youth Programme (Radio Univers, University of Ghana)  

CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS

• Africa-China relations and Africa’s strategic deficits. Paper presented to the students of the Legon Centre for International Affairs and Diplomacy (LECIAD). 15th April, 2014.
• Participant, symposium on the future of Africa-China relations at the University of South Africa (UNISA)hosted by the Thabo Mbeki Africa Leadership Institute. April 2015.
• Africa-China relations and Africa’s strategic deficits. Paper presented symposium on the future of Africa-China relations at the University of South Africa (UNISA) hosted by the Thabo Mbeki Africa Leadership Institute. April 2015. On the opening night was selected as one of the three scholars to field questions (2hour Session) together with senior diplomats from the media, the university community and scholars.
•  Attended the 10th International Whitehead Conference held from June 4-7, 2015 at Claremont College, California. I was specially invited to take part in a 3 day special reflective workshop as part of the Governance and Public Administration Track convened by Dr. Margaret Stout with whom I have worked and published on public administration theory since 2010.
• Attended the International Convention of Asian Scholars (ICAS) conference held in Adelaide, Australia (6-9 July, 2015)
• 2013-2015. Head of the Local Organizing Committee and Co-Convenor of the first conference on Asian Studies in Africa held at the University of Ghana, Legon(September 24-26,2015).
• Panel Convenor for panel MDGs, SDGs and Ghanaian Social Science: Sychrony, departure(s) and new vista(s). School of Social Sciences International Conference, University of Ghana, Legon. 14th-15th April, 2016.
• Responding to Ghana’s “Wicked” public policy problems: A matter of strategy or the SDGs?Paper presented at the of School of Social Sciences International Conference, University of Ghana, Legon. 15th April, 2016.
• Africa-China relations: New realities and Ghana’s interests. Paper presented to the students of the Legon Centre for International Affairs and Diplomacy (LECIAD). March 2, 2016.
• Panelist, Ghana Studies Association Conference Roundtable Discussion on Global Ghana and the African diaspora: Defining liberation for the 21st Century. Sponsored by the Association for the Study of the Worldwide African Diaspora(ASWAD), July 6, 2016,University of Cape-Coast, Cape-Coast, Ghana.
• The rise of telcos and telchambs in Africa: The Ghana case and the interconnections and implications for Africa’s knowledge society. Paper presented at Ghana Studies Association Conference, July 7, University of Cape-Coast, Cape-Coast, Ghana, July 7, 2016.
• Contemporary Africa-Asia-China relations. Paper Presented to Tsinghua University Students, Legon Centre for International Affairs and Diplomacy (LECIAD) on, Feb. 13, 2017, LECIAD Seminar Room 1, University of Ghana, Legon.
• Discussant, Roundtable I: Studying Asia-Experiential reflections. Centre for Asian Studies (CAS) International Symposium on 40 Years of Ghana-Korea Relations, April 12, 2017.
• Discussant, Panel I: A Look at the miracle on the Han River. Centre for Asian Studies (CAS) International Symposium on 40 Years of Ghana-Korea Relations, April 12, 2017.
• Panelist, Conference Roundtable: 40years hence what should Ghana-Korea relations look like? Centre for Asian Studies (CAS) International Symposium on 40 Years of Ghana-Korea Relations, April 13, 2017.
• Discussant, China’s Breakthrough in industrialization and infrastructural development in 30 Years. IDEG Conference, 4th July, 2017
• Participant, Professional Programme for Scholars from English-Speaking Countries( hosted in Beijing, Henan and Zhejiang ) organized by the Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Oct. 27-Nov. 7, 2017.
• Discussant /Chair, Roundtable on Teaching Japanese in Ghana for Two Decades: From Tentativeness to Sustainability, Centre for Asian Studies (CAS) International Symposium on 60 Years of Ghana-Korea Relations, November 13, 2017.
• Discussant /Chair, Roundtable on Innovation, Science and Technology in Ghana and Japan: An Inventor’s Perspective, Centre for Asian Studies (CAS) International Symposium on 60 Years of Ghana-Korea Relations, November 14, 2017.
• Discussant /Chair, Ambassadorial Roundtable on Ghana-Japan Relations: What Next after 60Years of an Enduring Partnership for Development?  Centre for Asian Studies (CAS) International Symposium on 60 Years of Ghana-Japan Relations, November 14, 2017.
• Discussant, Roundtable I: Studying Asia-Experiential Reflections. Centre for Asian Studies (CAS) International Symposium on 40 Years of Ghana-Korea Relations, April 12, 2017.
• Discussant, Panel I: A Look at the Miracle on the Han River. Centre for Asian Studies (CAS) International Symposium on 40 Years of Ghana-Korea Relations, April 12, 2017.
• Panelist, Conference Roundtable: 40years hence what should Ghana-Korea relations look like? Centre for Asian Studies (CAS) International Symposium on 40 Years of Ghana-Korea Relations, April 13, 2017.
• Discussant, Roundtable on Teaching Japanese in Ghana for Two Decades: From Tentativeness to Sustainability, Centre for Asian Studies (CAS) International Symposium on 60 Years of Ghana-Japan Relations, November, 13, 2017.
• Discussant, Roundtable on Innovation, Science and Technology in Ghana and Japan: An Inventor's
• Perspective, Centre for Asian Studies (CAS) International Symposium on 60 Years of Ghana-Japan Relations, November, 14, 2017.
•  Speech, After China, what Next? Citi Business Forum, 2nd Edition. Alisa Hotel,Accra, September 13, 2018.
• Discussant, How to (Co)Publish Internationally in Asia and Africa(Brill Roundtable), Conference on Asian Studies in Africa 2, University of Dar es Salaam, September, 20, 2018.
• Convenor and Chair, Centre for Asian Studies Roundtable: Koreans in Ghana, From 1957 to the Present, Conference on Asian Studies in Africa 2, University of Dar es Salaam, September, 21, 2018.
• Panelist, Roundtable of Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences : Toward Resilient Societies, Comparison and Cooperation Across regional Borders? University of Dar es Salaam, September, 22, 2018.
• Paper Presentation, “Laying the Foundations for “Doing” the Developmental State: Why and How Korea “Did” it and Ghana “Did Not” but Can.” Ghana Relating to Asia Panel. University of Dar es Salaam, September, 22, 2018.
• Co-Convenor and Panellist, Institutional Roundtable on Asian Studies in Africa Organized by the Association for Asian Studies in Africa (A-ASIA); The Centre for Asian Studies, University of Ghana (CAS-UG), Ghana; Dar es Salaam University (UDSM), Tanzania; and Université Gaston Berger (UGB), Senegal. University of Dar es Salaam, September, 22, 2018.
• Co-Convenor and Co-Chair, Centre for Asian Studies Roundtable-Building Asian Studies Centres in Africa: the Experience of the Centre for Asian Studies(CAS) thus far and the Future. University of Dar es Salaam, September, 22, 2018.
• Panel Convenor, Chinweizu, Africa and Contemporary Asia Development Pathways-An Interrogation, Chinweizu Conference, University of Ghana, November 6, 2018.
• Chair and Convenor, Chinweizu, Asia’s Rise and Disentangling Africa’s Strategic Incoherence for Africa’s Rise, Chinweizu Conference, University of Ghana, November 6, 2018.
• Paper Presentation, China-US Trade War and the Fate of Ghana and Africa. Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Regional Integration, Accra, Ghana, 27th February, 2019.
• Paper Presentation, “ Three Planks. One Base.” Webinar on “Europe and China: A New Race for Africa in Times of a Pandemic” hosted by the Vienna Institute for International Dialogue. Thursday, October 22, 2020. https://www.vidc.org/themen/wirtschaft/europa-und-china-ein-neuer-wettlauf-um-afrika-in-zeiten-einer-pandemie
• Paper Presentation, Building Asian Studies and Centres in Africa: Notes from the Field Africa. Africa Knows! Conference, the Hague, December 11, 2020.
• https://nomadit.co.uk/conference/africaknows/paper/58099

Paper Presentation, Diplomacy of Architecture: Ghana, China and Sixty Years of Spatial Engagement. Seminar (held online) hosted by Research Team of Chinese Construction Aid, City University of Hong Kong on Belt and Road Initiative: Exporting Chinese Architecture. June 5, 2021.

• I hold research fellowships at the African Studies Centre and the International Institute of Asian Studies (at the University of Leiden) both in Leiden, the Netherlands.