Emmanuel Akyeampong

Emmanuel Akyeampong is professor of History, African and African American Studies, and the Oppenheimer Faculty Director of the Harvard University Center for African Studies at Harvard University. His publications include Themes in West Africa’s History (2005), which he edited; Between the Sea and the Lagoon: An Eco-Social History of the Anlo of Southeastern Ghana, 1850 to Recent Times (2001); and Drink, Power and Cultural Change: A Social History of Alcohol in Ghana, c. 1800 to Present Times (1996).