Education

• PhD in Social and Cultural Anthropology, Catholic University of Louvain, Belgium. 2015
• MA in Cultures and Development Studies, Catholic University of Louvain, Belgium. 2005
• MA in Social and Cultural Anthropology, Catholic University of Louvain, Belgium. 2004
• Certificate in Clinical Pastoral Education. 2000
• Diploma in Religious Studies, University of Ghana, Legon. 1997

Research Interest

I am currently researching on the Agency of youth in the protracted land conflict between the people of Nkonya and Alavanyo in Ghana.

Publications

(2012) Rediscovering the Blessings of Priestly Fraternity - Ecce Sacerdos, Vol. 1, no. (3).
(2015) Contestations, Forest Resources and the Politics of Boundaries: The Evolution and
Dynamics of the Nkonya-Alavanyo Land Dispute in Ghana – Legon Journal of Sociology,
Vol. 5 (2): 33-58, University of Ghana, Legon

(2017) Appropriating Land, Worldviews, and Spiritual Navigation: The Dynamics and Praxis
of Everyday Life in the Alavanyo-Nkonya Land Dispute in Ghana – Anthropos, Vol. 122,
Sankt Augustin, Germany.

(2017) The Nkonya-Alavanyo Land Dispute in Ghana: Land Struggle, Power And
The Challenges of Belonging, Accra: Yamens Press Limited
Presentations
Sustainable Peace and Development at large: A search for cultural paths and conflict
resolution in land conflicts in Ghana – Presented at the Annual interfaculty research week in
KU Leuven, Belgium (2014).

Coping with uncertainty: The dynamics of youth agency in the Nkonya-Alavanyo land
dispute in Ghana – Paper presented at the Annual Conference of the Africa Studies
Association (ASA) in Indianapolis, USA, (2014).

Local processes, court verdicts and state interventions: The politics of Colonial and Post-
Colonial efforts to resolve the Nkonya-Alavanyo land dispute – Paper presented to PhD
students at the Institute of African Studies, University of Ghana, Legon, (2016).

Autochthony, Borders and the Challenges of Belonging: The Politics of Everyday Difference
in a Protracted Land dispute in Southern Ghana - A paper presented at the bi-annual Ghana
Studies Association (GSA) conference at the University of Cape Coast, (July 2016).

“Be strong if you have to eat”: Land Conflicts and Youth Agency in Ghana -
A paper presented at the 3 rd Triennial Conference of the Ghana Studies Association (GSA) at
the University of Ghana, Legon, (July 2019).