E Akyeampong

Biographic Data

ID2978
NAMEE Akyeampong
GIVEN NAMESE
FAMILY NAMEAkyeampong
SIGNATUREAKYEAMPONG E
AFFILIATIONSHarvard University Press
ORCID0000-0001-8146-1738
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS42
TOTAL CITATIONS436
AUTHOR COUNT42
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1992
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2023
H-INDEX12

  • Chinese Technology and the Transformation of the Rural Economy in Ghana

    Open AccessE Akyeampong, Liang XuARTICLEAfrican Affairs2023

    The recent Chinese involvement in small-scale gold mining in Ghana has received wide publicity and scholarly attention. While the literature has focused on environmental sustainability, political accountability, and institutional reforms, it is yet to examine local adoption of Chinese technology and its impact on Ghana’s rural economy. We argue that it is in the interstices between the formal economy and entrepreneurship within the informal econo…

  • Gender differences in extractive activities

    Open AccessWilliam Baah‐boateng, Eric Kofi Twum et al.ARTICLEInternational Journal of Social…2022

    Purpose The study seeks to examine women’s participation in Ghana’s extractive growth-driven economy and the quality of this participation in terms of employment status and earnings relative to their male counterparts and establish whether these differences constitute discrimination for policy attention. Design/methodology/approach The study adopts both quantitative and qualitative methodological approaches to assess the extent of gender inequali…

  • Religious Pluralism and Interfaith Coexistence

    Open AccessDavid Owusu-Ansah, David Owusu‐Ansah et al.ARTICLELegon Journal of the Humanities2019

    In many parts of the developing world, religion is singled out as the cause for violent clashes. At the 2007 TrustAfrica workshop in Dakar, the conference of religious leaders, scholars, and experts from 12 African countries and the Diaspora explored this concern under the theme "Meeting the Challenges of Religion and Pluralism in Africa." It was observed that religiously justified conflicts were often the repackaging of community concerns regard…

  • Special issue on ‘Africa and China

    E Akyeampong, Hippolyte FofackARTICLEEconomic History of Developing…2019References: 1

    On 16–17 November 2017, the Africa–Asia Initiative at Harvard University, a consortium of eight institutions and programmes with a focus on Africa–Asia collaborations, held a two-day conference at

  • African socialism; or, the search for an indigenous model of economic development

    E AkyeampongARTICLEEconomic History of Developing…2018Cited by: 6References: 10

    Ralph Austen in African Economic History (1987) noted how few African countries explicitly choose capitalism on independence, and for those who did it was a default model or a residual pattern. ‘African socialism’ was popular in the early decades of independence and pursued by several countries, including Ghana, Guinea, Senegal and Tanzania, the cases considered in this paper. The term had multiple meanings, and its advocates were quick to stress…

  • Threats to empire

    Open AccessE AkyeampongCHAPTERGlobal Anti-Vice Activism,…2016

    Between 1930 and 1948 colonial governments in British West Africa found themselves fighting an unusual battle against ordinary Africans on two fronts: illicit distillation from 1930, which undermined colonial revenue, assailed colonial hegemony in the flagrant disrespect for law, and compromised British subscription to international conventions that forbade liquor distillation in the African colonies; and prostitution, particularly during World W…

  • Global Anti-Vice Activism, 1890–1950

    Open AccessRobert Kramm-Masaoka, Philippa Levine et al.BOOKGlobal Anti-Vice Activism,…2016

    Vice was one of the primary shared interests of the global community at the turn of the twentieth century. Anti-vice activists worked to combat noxious substances such as alcohol, drugs and cigarettes, and 'immoral' sexual activities such as prostitution. Nearly all of these activists approached the issue of vice by expressing worries about the body, its physical health, and functionality. By situating anti-vice politics in their broader historic…

  • Participants

    E Akyeampong, Caroline Arni et al.ARTICLEThe American Historical Review2015

    To date, the journal has published seven “AHR Conversations,” each on a subject of interest to a wide range of historians: “On Transnational History” (2006), “Religious Identities and Violence” (2007), “Environmental Historians and Environmental Crisis” (2008), “Historians and the Study of Material Culture” (2009), “Historical Perspectives on the Circulation of Information” (2010), “The Historical Study of Emotions” (2012), and “How Size Matters:…

  • Commerce, Credit, and Mobility in Late Nineteenth-Century Gold Coast

    Open AccessE AkyeampongCHAPTERAfrica's Development in…2014

    Introduction The nineteenth century represents one of the most fascinating and dynamic centuries in the history of West Africa in the second millennium in terms of West Africa’s relations with the wider world. The century began with the abolition of the export slave trade and the substitution (a return to in some cases) of an export trade in primary products such as palm oil and groundnut oil. The simple technology behind African agriculture – th…

  • The Contribution of African Women to Economic Growth and Development in the Pre-Colonial and Colonial Periods

    E Akyeampong, Hippolyte FofackARTICLEEconomic History of Developing…2014Cited by: 10References: 69

    Bringing together history and economics, this paper presents a historical and processual understanding of women's economic marginalization in sub-Saharan Africa from the pre-colonial period to the end of colonial rule. It is not that women have not been economically active or productive; it is rather that they have often not been able to claim the proceeds of their labor or have it formally accounted for. The paper focuses on the pre-colonial and…

  • Rum, Gin and Maize

    Open AccessE Akyeampong, Samuel Aniegye NtewusuARTICLEAfriques2014Cited by: 3References: 15

    This paper examines the incorporation of rum and gin as powerful spiritual drinks in pre-colonial Gold Coast, particularly in the context of state formation and warfare, and the growing importance of maize, side by side with the indigenous yam, as the food of gods. Through food and drink, we analyze changing notions of spiritual efficacy and the ascendancy of war deities, and we interrogate how shifts in socio-political contexts aligned with thos…

  • For Prayer and Profit

    E AkyeampongARTICLEJournal of African Development2010Cited by: 1References: 3

    West Africa's historic ties of trade and Islam with the Arabian Peninsula date back to the 7th and 8th Centuries CE. On independence from colonial rule several African countries turned to the Arab world for official development assistance (ODA). The period from the 1990s has seen Gulf businesses making important financial investments in West African real estate and telecommunications. The Gulf has become an important source of consumer and capita…

  • Journal of African Diaspora; Transnational Africa in a Global World

    Open AccessFrancis B Nyamnjoh, R Van Dijk et al.ARTICLEAfrican Diaspora2008Cited by: 1

  • Ghana at Fifty

    E Akyeampong, Ama De-Graft AikinsARTICLETransition2008Cited by: 3

    The fifty-year anniversary celebrations of Ghana's independence animated the people of the nation while bringing back a flood of memories. Emmanuel Akyeampong and Ama de-Graft Aikins report and reflect on the events and their significance

  • The power of constructed identities? Thinking through ethnicity in Africa

    E AkyeampongARTICLEResearch Review of the Institute…2007Cited by: 1

    br>This article examines the disjuncture between everyday discourse about “tribalism” in Africa and the academic construction of “ethnicity.” It reviews the social science literature which by the 1960s underscored the social construction or “invention” of ethnicity vis-à-vis its past primordial image. The colonial era is seen as the fertile period during which tribes were invented. With the current understanding of the fluidity of identity, why d…

  • Race, Identity and Citizenship in Black Africa

    E Akyeampong, Emmanuel Kwaku AkyeampongARTICLEAfrica2006Cited by: 36References: 30

    As we approach the post-colonial half century, transnationalism has become a major reality in Africa and the wider world with the proliferation of immigrants, refugees and displaced persons. But transnationalism is not a new development, and diaspora and globalization - both historical processes - have long served as contexts for the remaking of identity, citizenship and polity. Today, concepts such as 'cosmopolitanism' and 'flexible citizenship'…

  • Spirituality, Gender, and Power in Asante History

    Open AccessE Akyeampong, Pashington ObengCHAPTERAfrican Gender Studies2005

    Available studies of Asante history have provided illuminating insights about Asante society at different points in time. These snapshots were often taken of a centralized Asante state in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Ivor Wilks has provided valuable analyses of an early assimilative Asante society, marked by egalitarian social structures, and a stratified imperial Asante in the nineteenth century.1 Wilks, George Hagan, and Larry Yarak…

  • Diaspora and drug trafficking in West Africa

    E AkyeampongARTICLEAfrican Affairs2005Cited by: 12

    This article interrogates the emergence of drug trafficking in contemporary Ghana and West Africa within the context of a global political economy, situated within a deeper historical perspective. It examines the earlier trafficking of cannabis along the coast of West Africa in the colonial period, and the later transnational networks that have emerged to promote international drug trafficking (cocaine and heroin). The article probes how the Afri…

  • Memories of Place and Belonging

    E AkyeampongARTICLEGhana Studies2004

    The Lebanese diaspora extended to incorporate West Africa from the 1860s, and most West African coastal countries today have established Lebanese communities that are several generations old. Lebanese presence continues to attract fresh immigrants, creating a situation, for instance in Ghana, where

  • "The History of Ashanti Kings and the Whole Country Itself" and Other Writings

    Trevor Getz, Trevor R Getz et al.ARTICLEThe International Journal of…2004

    History of Ashanti and the Whole Country and Other Writings. Edited by A. Adu Boahen, Emmanuel Akyeampong, Nancy Lawler, T. C. McCaskie, and Ivor Wilks. Fontes Historiae Africanae, New Series: Sources of African History, 6. New York: Oxford University Press/British Academy, 2003. Pp. x, 234. $39.95. The History ofAshanti and the Whole Country Itself and Other Writings is billed as a documentary history, yet it is also both biography and autobiogr…

  • Soldiers, Airmen, Spies, and Whisperers

    E Akyeampong, Emmanuel Kwaku AkyeampongARTICLEThe Journal of Military History2003

    This study of the Gold Coast during World War II is a major contribution to Gold Coast and West African historiography in its examination of espionage networks and activities in West Africa, as well as the importance of Takoradi (Gold Coast) as a site for the assembly of British war planes destined for North Africa and the Middle East. It takes an intriguing approach to history, exploring the counter factual possibility that the Gold Coast may ha…

  • Between the Sea and the Lagoon

    Benjamin Lawrence, E Akyeampong et al.ARTICLEAfrica2003Cited by: 3

    Emmanuel Kwaku Akyeampong, Between the Sea and the Lagoon: an Eco-social History of the Anlo of Southeastern Ghana, c. 1850 to Recent Times.Oxford: James Currey; Athens OH: Ohio University Press, 2002, 256 pp., US22.95, 0 82141409 7 paperback. - Volume 73 Issue 2

  • Potent Brews

    E Akyeampong, Justin WillisARTICLEAfrica2003Cited by: 14

  • Bukom and the Social History of Boxing in Accra

    E AkyeampongARTICLEThe International Journal of…2002Cited by: 8

    Emmanuel Akyeampong, Bukom and the Social History of Boxing in Accra: Warfare and Citizenship in Precolonial Ga Society, The International Journal of African Historical Studies, Vol. 35, No. 1, Special Issue: Leisure in African History (2002), pp. 39-60

  • Leisure in African History

    E Akyeampong, Charles AmblerARTICLEThe International Journal of…2002Cited by: 29

    Emmanuel Akyeampong, Charles Ambler, Leisure in African History: An Introduction, The International Journal of African Historical Studies, Vol. 35, No. 1, Special Issue: Leisure in African History (2002), pp. 1-16