Research Interest

Ongoing Research

1. Illustrative Reading for Comprehension of Literature in State -Owned Schools in Wiamoase, Ashanti Region. 
2. The Dilemma of Indigenous Performance within a 21st Century Global Society: The Case of the Dagaaba Community in North Western Ghana. 

Publications

Publications

• Journal Article

Ismaila, M. Akakpo, S.B. & Kuusangyele, N. (2022). Mapping the Trends of Educational Policy Implementation and its Impact on Quality Education in Ghana. World Journal of Education and Humanities, 4 (2), pp. 79-91.

Akakpo, S.B & Ismaila, M (2022). Chiefs in Development in Ghana: A Study of Two Contemporary Ghanaian Chiefs. African Journal of Culture, History, Religion and Traditions, 5(1), pp. 48-64.

Ismaila, M. (2021). Performing the Performance: Woes of Creative Teaching in State-Owned

Schools in Ghana. Academia Letters, Article 3996. https://doi.org/10.20935/AL3996.

Ismaila, M. & Akakpo, S.B. (2020). Adding the Dots and crossing the Ts: A  Historiographical

Overview of African Theatre History. Research Journal in Advanced Humanities, 1 (3), pp. 43-57. 

Ismaila, M. (2018). Beyond the Courtyard: Exploring Storytelling as an Instructional Method in Ghanaian Classrooms. African Performance Review, 10 (2), pp. 88-110. Adonis & Abbey Publishers Ltd.

Bewiadzi, S. & Ismaila, M (2016). “Financing Higher Education in Ghana: The Impact of Ghana Education Trust Fund on the Development of Tertiary Institutions in Ghana”. Tertiary Education Series, Vol. 8, No. 1 (2016), pp. 16-31, National Council for Tertiary Education, Accra, Ghana. 

• Book chapters

Ismaila, M. (2018). “The Identity and Function of Drama: The Ghanaian Situation” in Quartey, P. et al (eds) Multidisciplinary Perspectives on Transformation in Africa. pp. 281-301, Accra: Sub-Saharan Publishers.

Bewiadzi, S. & Ismaila, M. (2018). “Chieftaincy and Indirect Rule: The Nature, Politics and Exploits of Chiefs during the First World War in West Africa (1914-1930)” in Botchwey, NYM and Kwarteng, K.O. (eds) Africa and the First World War: Remembrance, Memories and Representations after 100 Years. pp. 127-144, UK: Cambridge Scholars Publishing. 

• Creative Works

Ismaila, M. (August 2021). ‘Yԑn Daakye wↄ Yԑn nsam’ (Our Future is in our Hands). A devised Performance based on the research, ‘Participatory Theatre and the Mitigation of Social and Environmental Harm: A Case Study from Artisanal and Small-Scale Gold Mining in Ghana’. (A Global Challenge Research Fund (GCRF) project. A collaboration between York University, UK and University of Ghana. 

 Ismaila, M. (May 2019). ‘The Need to Cultivate Reading Habit among Children’. A devised Educational Drama, prompted by an abandoned Community Library at the University of Ghana Staff Village, leading to the refurbishment of the library. 

Appiagyei- Atua, K., Aveh, A., The Open Society Initiative for West Africa (OSIWA) and Ismaila, M. 

(May 2018). Sɛwoena – Act of Fate. An advocacy and public education film on disability. This was an Educational Drama production to aid in creating public awareness and education in TheDisability Act in Ghana