Kwabena Akurang-Parry (Shippensburg University, Shippensburg, Pennsylvania)

Submitted:  Sat, June 14, 2008


Kwabena Akurang-Parry
Associate Professor
Department of History
Shippensburg University
Shippensburg, Pennsylvania  17257  USA

phone:  717 477 1286
fax:    717 477 4062
email:  kaparr@ship.edu

 
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.  

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. 

His research primary foci are comparative slavery and abolition; colonial 
rule and African responses; and gender in the Gold Coast (Ghana).

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