House Professor: NAABORKO SACKEYFIO-LENOCH
Naaborko Sackeyfio-Lenoch is Associate Professor of African History at Dartmouth College. She specializes in 20th century African history with a focus on Ghana and West Africa. She is author of The Politics of Chieftaincy: Authority and Property in Colonial Ghana: 1920-1950 (University of Rochester Press/Boydell and Brewer, 2014). Her work has appeared in edited collections along with articles in several journals including the International Journal of African History Studies, History in Africa, International Review of Social History and the Journal of West African History. Questions of decolonization, African internationalism, post-independence nationhood, and transnational/global cultural projects animate her current work. She is completing a monograph on post-independence Ghana that traces the country’s cultural institutions and the cultural/intellectual projects they developed at home and abroad during the 1960s-1990s.
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