Professor Samuel Aniegye Ntewusu is the current Director of the Institute of African Studies, University of Ghana. He holds a PhD in History from the University of Leiden, The Netherlands, and an Mphil in African Studies (IAS) from the University of Ghana. He had been a research fellow at IAS since August 2011. Prof. teaches Chieftaincy and Development in Africa (undergraduate course), and in collaboration with other lecturers, handles the following post-graduate courses: The Slave Trade and Africa, African Historiography and Methodology, Colonial Rule and African Responses and Pan Africanism. He has supervised a number of graduate students in their research projects/theses both within and outside of Ghana.

His research focuses on transport history, historical methodology, chieftaincy and development, the history of urbanization in Ghana, mining and the sex industry, rituals and ritual spaces, social transformations and colonialism in Ghana. He is a recipient of the 2016 Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW) Fellowship. The award is intended for top-notch researchers working outside The Netherlands who have shared their knowledge and experience with researchers in Dutch institutes and universities. A promising scholar in his field, he has developed himself as an all-round scholar of international repute, with invitations for collaborative engagements in his field from universities nationally and internationally, including The Netherlands, Norway, Canada, USA, Germany, South Africa, Portugal, Nigeria and Cameroon.

Prof. Ntewusu's CV.