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Affiliation Shippensburg University, Shippensburg, Pennsylvania

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Mailing Address Department of History Shippensburg University Shippensburg, Pennsylvania 17257 USA

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Research Interests Kwabena O. Akurang-Parry, a Ghanaian poet and historian, is an Associate Professor of African History and World History at Shippensburg University, Pennsylvania. He is a product of the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi, Ghana; the Institute of African Studies, University of Ghana, Legon, Ghana; and Wilfrid Laurier University, Waterloo, Canada. He received his Ph.D. in African history from York University, Toronto, Canada, in 1999. His research primary foci are comparative slavery and abolition; colonial rule and African responses; and gender in the Gold Coast (Ghana).

Teaching Interests He has held teaching posts at Tulane University, New Orleans, USA, and York University, Toronto, Canada.

Publications * He has published over fifty articles, some of which have appeared in Slavery and Abolition, African Economic History, The International Journal of African Historical Studies, History in Africa, Transactions of the Historical Society of Ghana, Left History, International Journal of Regional Local Studies, African Identities, Refuge, Ghana Studies, African Issues, Groniek, and the Journal of Cultural Studies. He is the co-editor of African Agency and European Colonialism: Latitudes of Negotiation and Containment (University Press of America, 2007). Some of his poems have appeared in Okike and Ufahamu.

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