Curriculum Vitae

Full Name: Naana Jane E. S. Opoku-Agyemang PhD/ FGA

Educational Background:

• O’ & A’ Levels, Wesley Girls’ High School, 1964-1971

• DSEF, Universite de Dakar, 1976
• BA (Hons) Ed. University of Cape Coast, 1977
• MA, York University, Toronto, Canada, 1980
• PhD York University, Toronto, Canada, 1986 (Passed with Honors in Major
Area of Study)

Recognitions/ Awards/Honors

• Fulbright Senior Scholar, 1993/1994

• Fellow, Institute for Advanced Study and Research into the African
Humanities, North Western University, Evanston Campus, Illinois, USA
January – August 1994.
• Outstanding Performance in Advancing International Education, School for
International Training, 2002 & 2007
• Fulbright American Summer Institute, Northern Illinois University, DeKalb
New York and Colorado, USA June 30 – August 12, 2003.
• Publicly Recognized and Honored by the Komenda Traditional Council of the
Central Region of the Republic of Ghana for outstanding contributions towards
education in the traditional area, 2004
• Member, Ghana Academy of Arts and Sciences, 2006
• Ghana National Award of Officer of the Order of the Volta (Highest honor
Ghana bestows on her citizens, October 2011)
• Doctor of Laws (LLD) Honoris Causa, University of the West Indies (2010)
• Doctor of Humane Letters (DLitt) Honoris Causa, Winston Salem State
University, North Carolina (2011)
• Ghana Women of Excellence Award (Category: Education), 2011
• Outstanding Contribution to Education by the Africa Education Leadership
Awards, Mauritius, December 2012
• Citation of Honor by the National Union of Ghana Students Women’s Caucus
(February 2012)
• Global Leadership Award, University of South Florida 2012
• Doctor of Humane Letters (DLitt) Honoris Causa, Grand Valley State
University (2014)
• Doctor of Letters, (DLitt) Honoris Causa, University of Cape Coast, 2015
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 • Honorary Fellow, Commonwealth of Learning, 2016
• Leading Women Achievers Award, 2018

Positions:
• National Service Person, Department of English, UCC
• Tutor, Writing Workshop, Your University 1979-1986
• Lecturer 1986
• Senior Lecturer 1993
• Associate Professor 2001
• Full Professor: 2006
• Vice Chancellor, University of Cape Coast (2008-2012)
• Minister of Education (January 2013-January 2017)
• President and Africa Board Chair, Forum for African Women Educationalists
(FAWE since August 2017)
• Chancellor, Women’s University in Africa, since 2018

Previous Academic Posts held with dates

• Teaching Assistant, Department of English, University of Cape Coast, 1977-

1978
• Tutor, Writing Workshop, York University, Toronto, Canada, 1979-1986.
• Lecturer, University of Cape Coast, 1986
• Promoted: Senior Lecturer, University of Cape Coast, 1993
• Promoted: Associate Professor of Literature, 2001
• Promoted: Full Professor of Literature, 2006
• Head, Department of English, UCC September, 2000-2002
• Dean, Faculty of Arts, November, 2001 – September, 2002
• Dean, School of Graduate Studies and Research, October 2002-September 2008
• Guest Lecturer, University of Ohio Summer Institute on African Literature, July
– August 1996.
• Academic Director, School for International Training, Ghana – African
Diaspora Studies, Fall 1997- Fall 2008
• Visiting Professor, Africana Summer Institute, National Council for Black
Studies Inc. USA and the University of Ghana, Legon July 9 – August 6 1995.
• Fellow, Institute for Advanced Study and Research into the African
Humanities, North-Western University, Evanston, USA January – August 1994.

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 • Exchange Professor, Eastern Washington University, Cheney, WA, USA
Spring Quarter, 1993.

Major Achievement as National Service Person:

a. Served as bilingual translator to team of Senior Academic Staff who

negotiated an agreement between the University of Cape Coast and
L’Universite du Benin at Lome, Togo. This led to the first batch of Togolese
students who spent one academic year at the Department of English,
University of Cape Coast.
b. Designed and taught the first Specialist Course in English for Francophone
students at UCC
c. Designed and taught a course in English Language and Literature to the
Togolese students. Four out of the five students qualified to join our regular
undergraduate students, completing the degree programs with respectable
classes. This course has now been developed to become the Proficiency In
English, leading to the award of a Certificate

Major Achievements as Senior/Lecturer:

a. Revived and Taught Specialist Course in English for Francophone students at

UCC, from 1988 to 1990
b. Co-Designed and Taught Specialist Course in English for Japan Overseas
Cooperation Volunteers in Ghana, from 1991-1993

Major Achievements as Academic/Administrative Head

As Warden Adehye Hall, from 1988-1994:

a. Created and furnished Social/Counseling Room for ease of interaction between

student and counselor
b. Fundraised to roof and paint entire hall of residence, terrazzo and refurbish the
hall library and the Junior Common Room.
c. In anticipation of receiving non-residential students, created Day Room with
curtains, bedding and desks to make day students feel part of the hall.
d. Worked as member of a committee that revised the student handbook that had
seen no revisions until then
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 e. Raised level of awareness of female students in encouraging them to take active
responsibility for the sanitation of the hall. This initiative changed our status to
the Cleanest Hall for five consecutive years

As Head of the Department of English

a. Fundraised to purchase first computer and accessories for the Department

b. Created a multi-purpose teaching room, furnished with television, speakers and
DVD equipment to diversify teaching methodologies in the Department
c. Classified all Long Essays in the Department for easy reference by students,
lecturers and other users
d. Held monthly meetings (second Sunday afternoon of each month) with all
course representatives (over lunch) to determine progress of classes and
provide a forum for the discussion of issues relating to the learning experience
e. With colleagues in the department, restructured the post graduate program in
English

As Dean of the Faculty of Arts

a. Initiated a forum for all graduate students to dialogue, share resources and
provide peer support
b. Initiated an informal get-together of all staff to brainstorm the way forward for
the faculty, twice each semester
c. Initiated program for recognizing the contributions of senior colleagues of the
faculty
d. Initiated a policy of receiving statements of accounts for each department at the
end of each month
e. To highlight communication in the Faculty, included in the agenda of the
Faculty Board reports by representatives of the Faculty on each Board and
Committee of the University.
f. Initiated a policy of maintenance for the Faculty building
g. Introduced and implemented idea of harvesting rain in the Faculty to respond to
perennial problem of water shortage in the municipality and to raise the level of
sanitation in the faculty

As Dean of the School of Graduate Studies and Research

a. Initiated idea of building a student editorial board in each faculty to enhance

peer support

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 b. Streamlined the admission process of the Board of Graduate Studies by
redesigning the admission form to include referee’s report and a statement of
purpose by applicant
c. Introduced end of semester evaluation forms by both student and supervisor
d. Revised Graduate Brochure to highlight areas of format and final presentation
of thesis/dissertation
e. Actively supported the creation of sandwich programs to meet the changing
profile of the graduate student and employer demands
f. Encouraged the changing profile of the Graduate Students Association of
Ghana (GRASAG) to reflect its true status and place in the University. This led
to the institution of GRASAG Seminars at UCC
g. Organized first post graduate conference at UCC, with focus on teaching and
supervision
h. Proposed the establishment of a School of Graduate Studies and Research at
UCC, became its founding Dean
i. Initiated process of ensuring compliance with suggestions by external
examiners

As Academic Director, World Learning/School for International Training, USA

(WL/SIT)

a. Upgraded and provided Academic Direction for the WL/SIT study abroad
program originally titled: “Crossroads of the African Diaspora.” This
program has been refocused and deepened to be known as “The History and
Cultures of the African Diaspora,” a model study abroad program of
WL/SIT
b. Paper on Reciprocity, read at the 40th Anniversary Colloquium of the School
for International Training/World Learning (SIT/WL) led to the emphasis on
Reciprocity in the development of a strategic plan for SIT/WL
c. Served on the Executive Council of WL/SIT for two unprecedented terms

d. Elected as the Chairperson of the World Wide Academic Director

Community, comprising some 100 academic directors from each continent
of the world; this position also lasted two unprecedented terms

e. Reviewed the Academic Content of the Study Abroad programs of WL/SIT

in the Arts and Culture domain
f. Broadened our community of friends while encouraging reciprocity
g. Publicly acknowledged and awarded, on two occasions, as having provided
a consistently outstanding quality academic program

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As Vice Chancellor
a. Instituted regular meetings with Deans to discuss issues directly focused on
scholarship in the Faculties/Schools
b. Significantly increased the number of academic staff with terminal degrees
through an aggressive recruitment process
c. Participated the first ever Educational Fair of Universities in Ghana abroad, this
occurring during my term as Chairperson of Vice-Chancellors-Ghana (2010-
2011)
d. Adequately resourced the Optometry and Laboratory Technology Departments
to warrant their re-opening by the National Accreditation Board
e. As Chairperson of Vice-Chancellors-Ghana (2010-2011) initiated a
Memorandum of Understanding among all member so VCG to ensure more
judicious use of in-country expertise
f. Instituted the Occasional Lecture Series to draw in speakers from a wide array
of backgrounds to deepen our knowledge and community relations
g. Initiated and completed work on the establishment of an Oil and Gas Institute at
the University
h. Moved the discussion on the establishment of a Law Faculty through
formulation of courses, establishment of a Law Library through approval from
Academic Board and the National Council for Tertiary Education onto the
premises of the National Accreditation Board
i. Completed the Review and publication of the Statutes of the University
j. Initiated and completed the Strategic Plan for the University
k. Initiated the construction of Study Centers at Accra, Kumasi and Nyakrom for
the Centre for Continued Education
l. Initiated the Construction of a 68 bed University Guest House in Accra to
replace the existing UCC Guest House at Tesano
m. Initiated and completed the construction of a Teaching and Study Centre for
Medical Students at the Central Regional Hospital, Cape Coast through
successful fundraising to the tune of over US$ 6million
n. Initiated the construction of a Diagnostic Centre at the Central Regional
Hospital, through successful fundraising of external sources to the tune of over
US$ 2 million
o. Completed the Education Lecture Complex, the University Senior Club House,
the 50-bed ward extension to the University Hospital, the Institute for
Development Studies Annex
p. Succeeded in seeking extra budgetary funding to the tune of GHC 4.1 for the
future completion of the Science Laboratory Annex building
q. Encouraged Student groups to share expertise with the youth and schools within
the University community
r. Actively participated in the establishment of the Fisheries College of the
University at Anomabo

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 s. Increased the national visibility of the university through reception of
1. The Citation of Honor by the National Union of Ghana Students Women’s
Caucus (February 2012);
2. Ghana National Award of Officer of the Order of the Volta ( October 2011)
3. Member of Council, National Council for Tertiary Education
4. Ghana Women of Excellence Award (Category: Education), 2011
5. Chairperson, Graphic Communications Group Limited;
t. Increased the external visibility of UCC through my nomination as member of
the following::
1. Governing Board of the Association of African Universities, (AAU);
2. Executive Board of the United Nations Educational and Scientific
Organization (UNESCO);
3. Founding President of the Association of Africa Universities (AWAU)
4. Africa Initiative Advisory Board, Canada
5. Executive Committee, Commonwealth Universities Study Abroad
Consortium (CUSAC)
6. Editorial Board, The Harriet Tubman Series on the African Diaspora (Africa
World Press Inc)
7. Selection Committee, African Humanities Project (AHP) of Carnegie
Corporation
Reception of:
1. Doctor of Laws (LLD) Honoris Causa, University of the West Indies
(2010):
2. Doctor of Humane Letters (Dlitt) Honoris Causa, Winston Salem State
University, North Carolina (2011);
3. Presidential International Scholar Award, Wheelock College, Boston,
MA, USA March 2011
Invitation as:
1. Special International Guest, 75th National Convention of the National
Association of Negro Business and Professional Women’s Clubs, Inc.
Texas, USA
2. Keynote Speaker, “Effective Women for Effective Change” Old Girls Association of
Wesley Girls’ High School UK and Ireland Branch, Sheraton Skyline Hotel, London
June 23, 2012
3. Invited Speaker, Africa-US Higher Education Initiative Partners’
Meeting, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, February 2012

As Minister of Education
a. Created a Forum for Dialogue by all unions and associations in the
education sector, thereby reducing the incidence of annual industrial
actions in the country
b. Introduced cost saving and efficiency mechanisms by redirecting
allowances paid directly to teacher trainees into improving resources for

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 the students and tutors; and redirecting research and book allowances paid
directly to individuals into the creation of a National Research Fund.
c. Created Second Opportunity for graduates of the Junior High school who
could not make the required grades for upward mobility
d. Personally inspected Basic and High Schools, Vocational/Technical
Schools, Polytechnics and Universities in all ten regions of the country on
unannounced basis, to acquaint myself with the schools on ordinary days.
e. Deepened the Decentralization of Education process of the country
f. Operationalized the National Inspectorate Directorate
g. Increased the enrolment of teacher trainees from 9,000 annually to 15,600
in the 2013-2014 academic year through the introduction of relevant
policies.
h. Declared “Zero Tolerance for Absenteeism” in the Schools to reduce the
rate of teacher absenteeism and increase time on task in the 2014 year; a
year later, the rate had dropped to 9%
i. Designed and began the construction of an additional 200 Senior High
Schools to provide more opportunities for a growing population
j. Rebranded Vocational/Technical Training to make it a first choice for
students
k. Improved supply of text books in core subjects from three pupils to a text
book to four textbooks for pupil
l. Began process to turn Polytechnics into Technical Universities; approved
by Parliament in August 2016; inaugurated in December 2106
m. Provided unique opportunity for BECE students to improve performance
by creating a special time for this to happen. Piloted in 2014
n. Successfully completed writing project with pupils from upper primary
public basic schools in Ghana, titled “Children Writing for Children”

Leadership Roles:

a. Senior Prefect, Wesley Girls High School

b. Member of the Executive Council, Adehye Hall Junior Common Room
c. Vice President, York University Co-Operative Day Care Association (during
tenure, averted the occurrence of the annual strike by day care givers through the
application of effective negotiation skills
d. Introduced and presented a concept paper on “Reciprocity” at the 40 th
Anniversary of the WL/SIT. This maiden paper led to the reshaping of the
strategic plan of WL/SIT focused around Reciprocity.
e. Founding President o the Association of Africa Universities (AWAU)
f. Founding President, Ghana Association of Universities
g. Vice Chancellor, University of Cape Coast
h. Minister for Education

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Membership to University /Boards/Committees

• Chair, Academic Board, 2008-

• Chair, Development Committee, 2008-

• Chair, Professional Board, Institute of Education 2008-

• Chair, Board of Graduate Studies, October 2002-Septemeber 2008

• Chair, Faculty of Arts Board, October 2001 – September 2002

• Chair, Publications Board, since 2001
• Chair, Library Board, University of Cape Coast 1996 – 2000
• Chair, Committee on Gender Studies, 1995 – 1996
• Chair, Board of Governors, Universities Practice Secondary School
January 1995 – January 2002.
• Vice President, University of Cape Coast National Alumni Association,
since 2002
• ‘Hall Warden’ and Counselor, Valco Trust Hall, 2002-2006

• Member, Finance Committee, since 2001

• Member, Development Committee, since 2001

• Member, Scholarships Committee, since 2001
• Member, Academic Board, UCC since 1998
• Member, University Business Management Board, January 1995 – 1998
• Co-coordinator of Projects, Consultancy Unit, January 1995 – 1998
• Member, Board of the Faculty of Arts since 1993
• Departmental Representative, Academic Board, 1999 – 2001
• Representative of Academic Board, Public Relations Committee 1993 –
2000
• Member of Senate, 1988 – 1990

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 • Warden, Adehye Hall, 1988 – 1994
• Representative of Academic Board, Hospital Board, 1989 – 2000
• Member, Nursery School Committee, 1989 – 1991
• Member, Student Affairs Committee, 1998 – 1994
• Member, Sub-Committee to review Students’ Handbook, 1992

National Boards/Committees
• Board Member as Eminent Person: Ghana College of Physicians and
Surgeons (2012-2015)
• Chair, National Commission for the United Nations Educational, Scientific
and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) 2013-2-017
• Chairperson, Graphic Communications Group Limited, 2011-2013)
• Nominee of Government, Council of the University College of Education
of Winneba, 1998 – 2002

• Lecture Series Co-coordinator, School for International Training,

Crossroads of the African Diaspora 1996 – 1997

• Member, Committee to consider possibility of turning Diploma Awarding

Institutions into Universities, 1993-1995

• Joint Co-coordinator, a Specialist Program in English Language and

Ghanaian Culture for Japan Overseas Co-operation Volunteers, 1991 –
1993.

• External Examiner for English, Diploma Awarding Colleges, Ghana,

1987-1992.

• External Examiner for English, University of College of Education,

Winneba, 1992 – 1993

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 • Chair, English Panel for Developing Syllabi and Programs of Study of
Proposed University College Winneba 1991 – 1992

• Associate Editor, Eastern Washington University Press, Cheney, USA

since 1993.

• Member, Adjudication Committee, Valco Literary Awards, Ghana, 1993

– 1998

• Warden Adehye Hall, (Only Women’s Hall of Residence) University of

Cape Coast, 1988 – 1994

• Founding Member, Board of Governors, Center for Democracy and

Development (CDD), since 1998

• Member, Board of Governors, Komenda Secondary Technical School,

1992 – 2000

• Nominee of Government, Cape Coast Municipal Assembly (CCMA), 1994

– 1998

• Member, Environmental and Tourism Sub-Committee of CCMA, 1994 –

1998.

• Representative of CCMA, Board of Governors, Wesley Girls High School,

Cape Coast 1994 – 1998.

Membership to International Boards/Committees:

• Member, Global Advisory Council, World Learning Inc. USA 2014-

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 • Executive Board, United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural
Organization (UNESCO) 2009-2013
• UNESCO Broadband Commission for Sustainable Development, 2015
• WHO High-Level Commission on Health Employment and Economic
Growth, 2106
• Member, Africa Initiative Advisory Board, CANADA, 2011-2012
• Member of the Executive Committee, Commonwealth Universities Study
Abroad Consortium (CUSAC)
• Editorial Board, Slavery, Abolition and Social Justice 1490-2007
Adam Matthew DIGITAL, UK
• International Advisory Board, Nigeria Hinterland Project of York
University and UNESCO
• Dean’s Advisory Board, School for International Training, (SIT) USA
• Governing Board, Association of African Universities (AAU)
• Editorial Board, The Harriet Tubman Series on the African Diaspora
(Africa World Press Inc USA)
• Selection Committee, African Humanities Project (AHP) of Carnegie
Corporation
• Reviewer, University of Ghana Readers Project
• Member, Editorial Board, Wheelock International Journal of Children,
Families, and Social Change.
• Member, Editorial Board, Atlantic Studies

Other Roles:

• Patron, “What Do You Know Club,” UCC

• Patron, Women’s Commission of NUGS
• Patron, Obaa Sima, UCC
• Patron, Ghana Methodist Students’ Union (GHAMSU)
• Co-Editor, Drumspeak (Faculty of Arts Journal, UCC)
• Member of Editorial Board, Center for Continuing Education, UCC

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 Travel Grants

• WHO High Level Commission on Health Employment and Economic Growth

(ComHEEG), September 2016, New York & December 2106, Geneva,
Switzerland. Role: Commissioner.
• Presidential International Scholar, Wheelock College, Boston, MA, USA March
2011
• Keynote Speaker, National Black Theatre Festival, Winston Salem, August 1 –
6, 2005
• Fulbright American Summer Institute, Northern Illinois University, DeKalb
New York and Colorado, USA June 30 – August 12, 2003.
• Conference on Leadership and Strategic Change in Higher Education for Heads
of Commonwealth Universities in Africa, University of Abertay, Dundee,
Scotland, August 11 – 16, 2002.
• Guest Speaker, Gender Forum, Institute of Commonwealth Studies, University
of Stirling, Scotland, April 1996.
• Visiting Professor, Africana Summer Institute, National Council for Black
Studies Inc. USA and the University of Ghana, Legon July 9 – August 6 1995
• Exchange Professor, Eastern Washington University, Cheney, WA USA Spring
Quarter, 1993

Membership/Fellowships of Professional/Learned bodies

• University Teachers Association of Ghana

• Ghana English Studies Association

• African Studies Association, USA

• African Literature Association, USA

• Ghana Studies Council

• International Fulbright Scholars Association

• Ghana Academy of Arts and Sciences (Member of Council 2006-2008)

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 • National Council of Black Studies, USA

• International Advisory Board, Nigeria Hinterland Project of York University and

UNESCO
• Commonwealth of Learning (COL)

Details of Research or Major Projects Undertaken

• Children Writing for Children Series in Ghana

• Literature by Women from Ghana: an archival Study : Since 1994; Resulted

in several publications that have highlighted little known women writers.

• Developing a Manual for Learning and Writing Skills for Undergraduate

Students: 1987-1996; Resulted in the publication of the book, A Handbook
for Writing Skills, 1998.

• Developing a Workbook for Writing Skills since 2003

• Collecting Oral Accounts of Resistances to Enslavement in the Upper West

and Western Regions of Ghana and in the Ouidah, Abomey and Ganvie
districts of Benin 1997 – 2006; Resulted partly in the inaugural address to
the Ghana Academy of Arts an Sciences, 2006.

Publications

Books
• Who Told the Most Incredible Story: How Dog’s nose became Dark and other
Stories, (Edited by Adwoa A. Opoku-Agyemang) Accra, Ghana: Afram
Publications, 2015
• Who told the most Incredible Stories and other Stories , (Edited by Adwoa A.
Opoku-Agyemang), Accra, Ghana: Afram Publications 2015
• Who Told the Most Incredible Story: The Singing Competition and other
Stories , (Edited by Adwoa A. Opoku-Agyemang), Accra, Ghana: Afram
Publications 2015

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• Who Told the Most Incredible Story: The Spread of Wisdom and other Stories ,
(Edited by Adwoa A. Opoku-, Agyemang), Accra, Ghana: Afram Publications
2015
• Who Told the Most Incredible Story: Never Spurn good Advice and other
Stories, Accra, , (Edited by Adwoa A. Opoku-Agyemang),Ghana: Afram
Publications 2015
• Naana J. S. Opoku-Agyemang: Where There is no Silence: Articulations of
Resistance to Enslavement, Accra: Pagelinks, 2008.

• J. R. Anquandah, N. J. Opoku-Agyemang and M. Doormont, (eds) The Trans

Atlantic Slave Trade: Landmarks, Legacies, Expectations, Sub-Saharan
Publishers, Accra, Ghana, 2006. (463 pages)

• Naana J. Opoku-Agyemang with Paul Lovejoy and David Trotman, (eds).

Literary Manifestations of the African Disapora. Africa World Press, Trenton,
New Jersey, USA,. Forthcoming, September 2006. (553 pages).

• Naana Opoku-Agyemang with Kwadwo Opoku-Agyemang, The Corpse That

Laughed. Accra: Black Mask Limited, 2000 (120 pages).

• Naana Opoku-Agyemang with Kwadwo Opoku-Agyemang, Kweku Ananse and

the Wailing Cane. Accra: Black Mask Limited, 2000 (76 pages).

• Naana Opoku-Agyemang with Kwadwo Opoku-Agyemang, Kweku Ananse the

Magic Stone. Accra: Black Mask Limited, 2000 (98 pages).

• Naana Opoku-Agyemang with Kwadwo Opoku-Agyemang, Never Spurn Good

Advice. Accra: Black Mask Limited, 2000 (85 pages).

• Naana Opoku-Agyemang with Kwadwo Opoku-Agyemang, Who told the most

Incredible Story. Accra: Black Mask Limited, 2000 (76 pages).

• Naana J. S. Opoku-Agyemang: A Handbook for Writing Skills Accra:

Universities of Ghana Press, January 1998

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Chapters in Books:

• “An Analysis of the Exponents of Oppression in Nawal el Sadaawi’s God Dies

by the Nile” in Edu-Buandoh, Dora F. and Appartaim, Anita. Between
Language and Literature: A Festschrift for Professor Kofi Edu Yankson. Cape
Coast: University of Cape Coast Printing Press, 2012, pp. 299-314.

• “Writing for Children in a Fractured World” in Anne V. Adams (ed) Essays in

Honor of Ama Ata Aidoo at 70. Banbury, UK: Ayebia Clarke Publishing
Limited, 2012 pp. 86-97.

• “Serving the Global World Economy: Africa, Ghana and University of Cape
Coast” in Journal of Leadership Studies: Expanding Interdsicplinary Discourse.
School of Advanced Studies, University of Phoenix, AZ, 2012 Volume 4 Issue
1 pp 78-81

• “Education and Human Security in Africa” in Human Security in Africa:

Perspectives on Education, Health and Agriculture. With G. T. K. Oduro. Eds.
Obasango, O. at al. Lagos, Nigeria: Kingsmann Graffix 2010 pp.247-260.

• “The Living Experience of the Slave Trade in Sankana and Gwollu-Literary

Manifestations and Implications for Tourism” in J. R. Anquandah and N.J.
Opoku-Agyemang, Eds. The Trains Atlantic Slave Trade: Landmarks,
Legacies, Expectations, Accra: Sub-Saharan Publishers, 2008.

• “A Fork in the Road: Ayi Kwei Armah’s Osiris Rising and Florence Ladd’s
Sarah’s Psalm on the subject of Homecoming” Africa and Trans-Atlantic
Memories: Literary and Aesthetic Manifestation of Diaspora and History, (Eds.)
Naana J. Opoku-Agyemang, Paul Lovejoy and David Trotman, Africa World
Press Inc., Trenton, New Jersey, 2008 pp. 303-317.

• “Narrative Turns in Ama Ata Aidoo’s No Sweetness Here” Emerging

Perspectives on Ama Ata Aidoo eds. Ada U. Azodo and Gay Willentz. Trenton,
(NJ), Africa World Press 1999 pp. 127 – 144.

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 • “A Girl Marries a Monkey: The Folktale as an Expression of Value and Change
in Society” Arms Akimbo: Africana Women in Contemporary Literature ed.
Janice Liddel and Yakini B. Kemp Gainesville: University Press of Florida 1999
pp. 230 (RPT) * Originally published in Asemka Vol. 7 pp. 5 – 11.

• “Gender Role Perceptions in the Akan Folktale” in Gender Perceptions and

Development in Africa: A Socio-Cultural Approach ed. Mary Modupe, Lagos,
Nigeria: Kolawole Arrabon Academic Publishers, 1998 pp. 83 – 120.

Articles in refereed journals

• “Serving the Global Knowledge Economy: Africa, Ghana, and University of

Cape Coast” Journal of Leadership Studies: Expanding Interdisciplinary
Discourse School of Advanced Studies, U of Phoenix, AZ, 2010 Volume 4
Issue 1 pp.78-81 (2010).

• “Remembering Enslavement: Visually and Audibly” (2009)

http://www.slavery.amdigital.co.uk/Essays/content/Opoku-
AgyemangEssay.aspx

• “The Articulation of Change in Literature by Women from Africa” Accepted for

Publication in WAVES, A Literary Journal of the University of Gabon, May
2006.

• Selma Alhassan: “Tanofia”: Ghana 1971 – English “ with Esi Sutherland Addy,
in Women Writing Africa: West Africa and the Sahel New York: The Feminist
Press, 2005, pp. 269 – 271.

• “Reading Love Stories by Women from Ghana” Reading Africa: African

Research and Documentation #83 Cambridge University Press, Eds. Stephanie
Newell et. Al. 200 pp. 49 – 60.

• “Ola Rotimi’s Our Husband Has Gone Mad Again: A Study on the Nature of
Comedy” Legon Journal of the Humanities. Volume XIV 2003 pp. 79 – 100.

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• “And Still They Fight: The Material and Cultures Manifestations of Resistance
to the Slave Experience in Selected Locales in Ghana and Benin” Drumspeak:
Journal of the Faculty of Arts, University of Cape Coast, Forthcoming.

• “A Study of Saadawi’s Narrative Technique in God Dies by the Nile” Accepted

for publication in The Legon Journal of the Humanities.

• “Gender Role Perceptions in the Akan Folktale” Research in African

Literatures ed. Abiola Irele (Indiana University Press) Vol. 30 No. 1 Spring
1999 pp.116 – 139. *Also Published in Gender Perceptions and Development
in Africa: A Socio-Cultural Approach ed. Mary Modupe, Lagos, Nigeria:
Kolawole Arrabon Academic Publishers, 1998 pp. 83 – 120.

• “A Reading of Ama Ata Aidoo’s Anowa” The Afro-Centric Scholar: The

Journal of the National Council of Black Studies (USA) Vol. 2 Dec. 1993 pp.
70 – 83. * Also published in Nwayibu: Womanbeing and African Literature
eds. Phanuel A. Egejuru and Ketu H. Katrak Trenton, NJ (USA): Africa World
Press 1997 pp 21 – 31.

• “Recent Female Literary Voices from Ghana” English in Ghana Ed. M.E.
Kropo Dakubu Accra: Black Mask Publishers 1997 pp. 225 – 247.

• “Sankofa or the Uses of Memory” Images of African and Caribbean Women:

Migration, Displacement, Diaspora University of Stirling: Centre of Common
Wealth Studies 1996 pp. 85 – 96.

• “Recovering Lost Voices: The Short Stories of Mabel Dove Danquah” Writing
African Women S. Newell, London: Zed 1997 pp. 67 – 80.

• “Lest We Forget: A Critical Survey of Ghanaian Women’s Literature” in

Asemka Vol 8 1995 pp. 61 – 84.

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• “To Rise Again: of Women and Marriage in Mariama Ba’s So Long a Letter”
Asemka Vol. 6 pp. 49 – 68.

• “Releasing the Potential of Women for National development” In Readings on

the Green book, Ed. G. K. Nukunya, and Tom Kumekpor, Tripoli, The World
Center for the Studies and Researches of the Greenbook, 1990, pp. 26 – 35.

• “The Politics of Silence: The Preschool Child” in Readings on the Greenbook,

Ed. G. K. Nukunya and Tom Kumekpor, Tripoli, The World Center for the
Studies and Researches of the Greenbook, 1990, pp. 175-180.

• “An Assessment of Toundi’s Character in Ferdinand Oyono’s Houseboy in

Awareness, UCC 1976, pp. 48 – 52. Published under maiden name, Jane Sam
(an undergraduate effort)

Articles in other sources

• Foreword to The Forgotten Ministry of the Church: ministering to Children
with Disability by Anthony Boakye Dapaa, Abusuapa Publicity: Kumasi, pp.
vii-vii 2018

Conferences, Seminars, Symposia, Workshops etc.

• Webinar, A Fundacion Mujeres por Africa

Theme: Women, Pandemic and Economic Crisis: A Gendered Framework
Role: Panelist
Date: June 29, 2020

• Webinar, Association of African Universities

Theme: Academic Survival During Covid Pandemic: Perspectives of
Eminent Higher Education Leaders
Role: Panelist
Date: June 18, 2020

• Ashesi University Collaborative Stakeholders’ Forum

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 Theme: Covid 19 -Test of Ghana’s Education System: Policy Implications
and New Pathways
Role: Panelist
Date: June 16, 2020

• Lagos State University Virtual conference

Theme: STEM Education in Africa
Role: Special Guest of Honor
Date: May 6, 2020

• Women’s Day, University of Cape Coast

Theme: “I am Gender Equality: Realizing Women’s Rights’
Role: Keynote Speaker
Date: March 4, 2020

• Presentation of FAWE Strategic Plan at AU Headquarters

Role: Africa Board Chair, FAWE
Date: February 8, 2020

• 1st International Conference of the Faculty of Education-National Open

University of Nigeria
Role: keynote Speaker: “Revitalizing Education for the Attainment of
Sustainable Development Goals for Africa”
Venue: National Open University of Nigeria
Dates: September 23-27, 2019

• Times Higher Education/World Academic Summit

Role: Opening Keynote Speaker
Venue: ETH Zurich University, Switzerland
Dates: September 10-12, 2019

• Association of African Universities: Conference of Rectors, Vice-

Chancellors and Presidents of African Universities (COREVIP)
Role: Special Guest
Venue: Al-Azhar International Conference Center, Cairo, Egypt
Dates: July 8-11, 2019

• Women Deliver 2109 Conference, Vancouver, Canada

Roles:
1. Moderator: The Power of Integration

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 2. Concurrent Speaker: Intergenerational Dialogue about
Gender Transformative Education
3. Panelist: United Nations Girls’ Education Initiative
(UNGEI)
4. Panelist: Integration Matters and What’s the Recipe?
5. Bilateral Discussions with Alice Albright, Global
Partnership for Education
Venue: Vancouver Convention Centre, Vancouver, Canada
Dates: June 3-6, 2019

• Pulling together to achieve transformative education for Girls and Women in

Conflict
Roles:
1. Opening and Closing Remarks
2. Panelist: Why Focus on Girls and Women Education?
Venue: Windsor Golf and County Hotel, Nairobi, Kenya
Date: May 22, 2019

• Celebrating the 50th Anniversary of the Publication of Ayi Kwei Armah’s

The Beautyful Ones Are Not Yet Born
Venue: Professor Naana Jane Opoku-Agyemang Auditorium and Domwini
Daabre Kuupole Conference Centre, Amissah-Arthur Language Center,
University of Cape Coast
Role: Chair of Opening and Closing Sessions
Date: April 16, 2019

• Strategic Approaches to Building Community Coalitions on Partnerships

Venue: Accra City Hotel
Role: Keynote Speaker
Date: April 11, 2019

• MasterCard Foundation Gender Consultation Meeting

Role: Invited Participant
Venue: Labadi Beach Hotel, Accra
Date: April 5, 2019

• Family Life Series

Role: Speaker: “Balancing Church and Family Responsibilities”
Venue: Immanuel Methodist Church, East Airport, Accra
Date: March 29, 2019

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• Strategic Plan Validation Workshop for FAWE
Role: Chair, Validation Committee
Venue: FAWE House, Nairobi, Kenya
Dates: October 31-November 1, 2018

• Educational Conference on Improving Teacher Quality in Ghana: The Role of Women in

Educational Leadership
Role: Keynote Speaker
Topic: Offsetting the Challenges of Women in Educational Leadership
Venue: Holiday Inn, Accra, Ghana
Date: October 3, 2018

• Faculty of Arts Colloquium: Attaining the SDGs 4 &15: The Role of the
Humanities
Role Keynote Speaker: The Humanities Matter, Still!
Venue: Professor Naana Jane Opoku-Agyemang Auditorium
Date: September 2018

• UNESCO’s Partners’ Forum: Structured financing Dialogue

Role: Panelist on “The Data Challenge: UNESCO’s Role in Monitoring and
Reporting on the Sustainable Development Goals
Venue: UNESCO Headquarters, Paris, France
Dates: September 11-12, 2018

• Workshop for Staff of the Association of African Universities

Venue: Secretariat, AAU, Accra
Role: Consultant
Date: July 31, 2018

• 3rd Consortium of Academic and Research Libraries in Ghana

(CARLIGH)/Association of African Universities (AAU) Conference
Theme: Managing Research Output for National Development: Trends and
Issues
Role: Keynote Speaker
Venue: Conference Hall Association of African Universities, Accra
Dates: July 9-13, 2018

• Sustainable African Cities: Debating Current Challenges and Exploring

Future Pathways
Role: Participant
Venue: Ghana Academy of Arts and Sciences Complex, Accra, Ghana
Dates: July 3-6, 2018

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• Global Women Economic and Social Empowerment Summit
Role: Special Guest
Venue: Labadi Beach Hotel, Accra, Ghana
Dates: July 4-5, 2018

• THE Young Universities Summit

Role: Speaker
Venue: University of South Florida, Tampa, USA
Dates: June 5-7, 2018

• Global Education Monitoring Report

Third Meeting of The Advisory Board
Role: Board Member
Dates: 31 May - 1 June 2018
Venue: UNESCO Headquarters Paris, France

• Unlocking the World’s Potential: Leading and Innovating for Quality

Education in Africa (A WISE Event)
Role: Delegate
Venue: Marriott Hotel, Accra
Date: May 9, 2018

• Pan African High-Level Conference on Education: Bridging the continental

and global education frameworks for the Africa We want
Role: Speaker
Paper Presented: “Nourishing the STEM pipeline: How Higher Education
Policy and Leadership retains Women in Science”
Venue: Safari Park Hotel, Nairobi, Kenya
Date: April 25-27, 2018

• International Leadership Conference for Women in Higher Education

Role: Speaker.
Paper Presented: “The journey of a Woman in Higher Education; the
struggles with male counterparts, promotions…”
Venue: AAU Headquarters, Accra Ghana
Date: November 24, 2107

• High Level Meeting on Ending Child Marriage in Africa

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 Role One: ‘An Overview of Child Marriage in West and Central Africa’.
Title of Paper: “Child Marriage and Education”
Role two: Remarks on behalf of CSO from the Regional Coalition on Ending
Child Marriage
Venue: Dakar, Senegal
Dates: October 20-25, 2017

• Tenth Anniversary of the Association of West Africa Universities

Theme: The Role of Universities in the Sustainable Development Goals
Role: Plenary Speaker
Paper Presented: “Gender Equity, Sustainable Development and
Universities”
Venue: Niamey, Niger
Dates: September 18-21, 2017

• Forum of African women Educationalists (FAWE)

Theme: Towards gender Equality in Education: Positioning Youth to
champion Africa’s Education Agenda
Venue: Intercontinental Hotel, Lusaka, Zambia
Dates: August 23-25, 2017

• WHO High-Level Commission on Health, Economic Employment and

Growth
Role: Commissioner
Venue: United Nations Headquarters, New York, USA
Dates: September 20, 2016

• WHO High-Level Commission on Health, Economic Employment and

Growth
Role: Commissioner
Venue: Geneva, Switzerland
Dates: December 14-15, 2016

• Pan Commonwealth Forum on Open Learning

Theme: Open, Online and Flexible Learning: The Key to Sustainable
Development
Venue: Traders Hotel, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Dates: November 27-30, 2016

• 200th Session of UNESCO Executive Board Meeting

Role: Representative of Ghana to UNESCO

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 Venue: UNESCO Headquarters, Paris
Dates: October 3-19, 2016

• UNESCO’s 50th Anniversary of International Literacy Day, co-hosted by

USAID and the Library of Congress
Venue: Library of Congress, Jefferson Building, Washington DC
Paper Presented: “The ignored Links in Literacy”
Dates: September 7-9, 2016

• UN Broadband Commission
Venue: Yale Club, New York
Date: September 20, 2016

• Association of Commonwealth Universities (ACU) Conference of University

Leaders 2106
Theme: “Defining the Responsible University, Society, Impact and Growth”
Role: Chair of Panel: “Responsible Use of Scholarships”
Venue: Accra International Conference Center, Ghana
Dates: July 27-29, 2016

• World Youth Forum

Busan, Seoul, South Korea
July 3-14, 2016
Role: Invited Guest
Paper Presented: “To resolve youth issues and cultivate global youth leaders”

• 199th Session of UNESCO Executive Board Meeting

Role: Representative of Ghana to UNESCO
Venue: UNESCO Headquarters, Paris
Dates: April 4-15, 2016

• Global Education and Skills Forum

Venue: Atlantis The Palm, United Arab Republic, Dubai
Dates: March 12-13, 2016

• Member, President’s State visit to Scotland

Dates: March 15-20, 2016

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• MASHAV and Teacher Task Force High Level Conference “Achieving
Education 2030 Agenda with Quality Educators”
Venue: Jerusalem, Israel
Dates: February 15-17, 2016

• World Education Forum, UK

Role: Guest Speaker
Topic: “The Importance of Progression routes within Skill covering both
Education and Schooling”
Dates: January 17-21, 2016

• 38th Session of UNESCO General Conference

Role: Leader of Ghana Delegation
Venue: UNESCO Headquarters, Paris
Dates: November 3-18, 2015

• Swedish Africa Higher Education Conference

Venue: University of Skovde, Gottengurg, Sweden
Paper Read: “Sustainable International Collaborations”
Dates: 9-11 November, 2015

• UK Study Tour and Critical Mass Conference on Social Enterprise

Role: Invited Guest
Venue: Royal Institution, London
Dates: October 19-22, 2015

• Broadband Commission
New York
September 2015

• University of Southern California

• FARA Conference
September 2015
• Conference of District Directors of Education
Role: Keynote Speaker
Venue: Takoradi Polytechnic, Ghana
Dates: August 25, 2015

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• 19th Conference of Commonwealth Education Ministers: “Quality Education
for Equitable Development: Performance, Paths and Productivity”
Role: Chair of the African Ministerial Caucus
Venue: Nassau, The Bahamas
Dates: June 22-26, 2015

• International Launch of the 2015 Education for All Global Monitoring Report
United Nations Headquarters
New York, USA
April 9, 2015
Role: Invited Participant to Share the Successes of Ghana in the EFA

• African Library and Information Association Conference

Role: Guest of Honor
Date: May 30, 2015
Venue: Ghana Institute of Management and Public Administration (GIMPA)

• International Conference on ICT Post 2015

Role: Invited Guest
Venue: Incheon, China,
Dates: May 23-25, 2015

• Education for Sustainable Development (ESD)

Role: Participant in High Level Panel on ESD 2030: “Setting the Stage”
Venue: Oakwood Premier Hotel, South Korea
Dates: May19-22, 2015

• Leadership and Governance Forum for Senior Women in African

Governments
Venue: Yale University, CT, USA
Dates: May 4-8, 2015

• Visit to Contracta Firm,

Venue: Sao Paulo and Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Dates: March 28-April 2, 2015

• State Visit to the Republic of Botswana

Dates: March 9-11, 2015

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• Ministerial Conference of Science, Technology and Innovation of the Non-
Aligned Movement (NAM)
Tehran, Iran
Venue: February , 2015
Paper Presented: “Science, Technology and Innovation for Economic
Growth”

• Conference of Ministers of Education of the African Union (COMEDAF)

Meeting on Education 2015
Role: Member
Venue: Kigali Serena Rwanda
Date: February 8, 2015

• Sub-Saharan African Regional Conference on Education Post 2015

Role: invited Speaker, Participated in Ministerial Roundtable
Venue: Kigali Serena Hotel, Rwanda
Date: February 9-11 2011
• State Visit to the Republic of Germany
Dates: January 17-21, 2015

• Skills Development Program

Venue: Kigali Serena Hotel
Dates:

• Meeting of the Executive Board, Forum for African Women Educationalists

Nairobi, Kenya

• 9th General Assembly, Forum of African Women Educationalists

Venue: The Boma Hotel, Nairobi, Kenya
Dates: August 13-16, 2014

• RUFORUM Biennial Conference

Role: Invited Speaker
Venue: VIP Grand Hotel. Maputo, Mozambique
Dates: July 19-25, 2014

• Global Partnership for Education 2nd Pledging Conference

Venue: Brussels, Belgium
Papers Read: “Domestic Resource Mobilization” and “The role of Business in
Transforming Global Education”
Dates: June 25-27, 2014

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• Higher Education and Development: Tackling 21st Century Challenges
Dates: June 24-June 25, 2014
Paper Read: “Governing Higher Education systems: Experiences of Reform”
Venue: Wilton Park, London

• World Education and Skills Forum

Dates: March 15-17, 2014
Role: Invited Panel Participant
Venue: J. W. Marriott Marquis, Dubai, UAE

• The Education World Forum

Dates: 19-22 January 2014
Role: Invited Participant
Venue: Central Hall Westminster, London

• 192nd UNESCO Executive Board Meeting

Role: Ghana’s Permanent Delegate
Venue: UNESCO Headquarters, Paris
Dates: September 22- October 11, 2013

• High Level TVET Mining Study Tour

Venue: Sydney, Hunter Valley, Brisbane, Australia
Dates August 4-10, 2013
SkillsDMC Annual Conference
Date: August 8, 2013
Paper Presented: “Skills on a Global Stage”

• 6th Africa Agricultural Science Week and FARA General Assembly

Paper Read: Africa Feeding Africa Through Agricultural
Innovation: Education and Human Resource Development to
Enable Africa Feed Africa
Date: 19, July 2013
Venue: Accra International Conference Centre, Accra Ghana

• THE FIRST GHANA-FRANCE HIGHER EDUCATION CONFERENCE

Venue: THE COCONUT GROVE HOTEL, ACCRA
Role: Keynote address

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 Date: 18TH JUNE 2013

• Advancing Good Governance in International Development

Role: Discussant
Venue: Rhodes House, Oxford University
Dates: June 6-8, 2013

• 71st Governing Board Meeting of the Association of African Universities and

13th Annual General Conference
Role: Member of Governing Council and Moderator of Panel Discussion
Venue: Hotel Okoume and Omar Bongo University, Libreville, Gabon
Dates: May 25-31, 2013

• 191stth UNESCO Executive Board Meeting

Role: Ghana’s Permanent Delegate
Venue: UNESCO Headquarters, Paris
Dates: February 3-18, 2013

• 190th UNESCO Executive Board Meeting

Role: Ghana’s Permanent Delegate
Venue: UNESCO Headquarters, Paris
Dates: October 3-18, 2012

• “Where There is no Silence: Articulations of Resistance to Enslavement”

Event: Year of Ghana Program
Role Keynote Speaker
Venue: Kennesaw State University, GA, USA
Date: September 6, 2012

• (18th) Conference of Commonwealth Education Ministers (18CCEM)

Theme: 'Meeting the demand for post-secondary education: Practical solutions to difficult
questions'.
Venue: University of Mauritius, Mauritius
Dates: 27-30 August 2012.

• 6th World Women University Presidents/Vice Chancellor Forum

Theme: Sustainable Development Through University Partnerships to Empower
Women for Leadership Roles

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Role: Chair
Venue: The Rainbow Towers, Harare, Zimbabwe
Dates: August 15-16, 2012

• Conference of the Role of Private Universities in Higher Education in Africa

Role: Chair of a Plenary Round Table Discussion
Venue: African Union Conference Centre, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
Dates: August 8-10, 2012

• Climate Change and Population Conference on Africa

Role: Invited Speaker
Topic: Climate Change and the Humanities
Venue: University of Ghana
Dates: July 01-04, 2012

• 1st National Women’s Conference of the Distance Education Students Association of

Ghana (DESAG)
Role: Keynote Speaker
Venue: Centre for Distance Education Conference Centre, UCC
Date: July 5, 2012

• “Effective Women for Effective Change” Old Girls Association of

Role; Keynote Speaker
Venue: Sheraton Skyline Hotel, London
Date: June 23, 2012

• Commonwealth Universities Study Abroad Consortium (CUSAC) Executive

Board and General Meetings
Role: Board Member, Africa Representative
Venue: Keele Management Center, Keele University, Strattfordshire, England
Dates: April 25-28, 2012

• Going Global 6 Conference: Changing Education for a Changing World

Role: Invited Participant
Venue: Queen Elizabeth Conference Center, London
March 13-15, 2012

• 189th UNESCO Executive Board Meeting

Role: Ghana’s Permanent Delegate
Venue: UNESCO Headquarters, Paris
Dates: February 25-March 9, 2012

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 • Africa-US Higher Education Initiative Partners’ Meeting
Role: Invited Speaker
Topic:
Venue: United Nations Conference Center, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
Paper Read: “Lessons from Higher education Partnerships in sub-Saharan Africa”
Dates: February 13-15, 2012

• 4th Annual Congress of Distance Education Students Association of Ghana

(DESAG)
Role: Guest of Honor
Venue: Ghana National Association of Teachers Hall, Kumasi
Date: October 15, 2011

• 187th UNESCO Executive Board Meeting

Role: Ghana’s Permanent Delegate
Venue: UNESCO Headquarters, Paris
Dates: September 26- October 6, 2011

• Ghana Education Fair in the UK

Role; Leader of Delegation of Vice Chancellors Ghana
Venues: Cambridge University, Reading Cardiff and University of Reading
Dates: August 10-21, 2011

• ECOWAS Meeting on Education

• Venue: Lome, Togo

• Covenant University
Role; Distinguished Speaker to deliver Convocation Address at 6th Graduation
Ceremony
Topic: “Mapping Out Pathways for Continued Relevance of Universities in
Africa”
Venue: Covenant University, Lagos, Nigeria
Dates: July 20-24, 2011

• Workshop for Boards of State Owned Media

Role; Participant
Venue: Bejaya Hotel, Elmina
Dates: June 9-11, 2011

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 • Board Meeting, AAU Association of African Universities
Role: Board Member
Venue: Stellenbosch University, South Africa
Dates: May 28-29, 2011

• COREVIP 2011 – Conference of Rectors, Vice Chancellors and Presidents of

African Universities
Role: Member
Venue: Stellenbosch University Governing, South Africa
Dates: May 30-June 3, 2011

• 186th UNESCO Executive Board Meeting

Role: Ghana’s Permanent Delegate
Venue: UNESCO Headquarters, Paris
Dates: May 9-19 2011

• UNESCO Meeting of Group of Experts on Financial and Administrative

Matters,
Role: Nominee of Africa Group 5(a)
Venue: UNESCO Headquarters, Paris
Dates: May 3-6 2011

• IAU 4th Global Meeting of Associations of Universities (GMA IV)

Theme: Internationalization of Higher Education: New Players, New Approaches
Venue: New Delhi, India
Dates: April 11-12, 2011

• ACU 2011 Conference of Executive Heads

Theme: 'Higher Education in Hard Times - Risk, Reputation, Reform: Developing
New Business in a Changing Environment'.
Chinese University of Hong Kong
Dates: April 6-8 2011

• Inaugural Lecture
Topic: Resistance to Enslavement in Ghana
Venue: Winston Salem State University, North Carolina, USA
Date: March 28, 2011

• Inaugural Meeting of the Association of West Africa Universities (AWAU)

Venue: University of Ilorin, Nigeria

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Role: Invited Participant
Date: January 10, 2011

• Antoinette Brown Sherman Memorial Lecture Series

Role: Delivery of Inaugural Lecture
Venue: University of Liberia, Monrovia, Liberia.
Date: December 22, 2010

• “The Interaction of National Values, Concepts, Beliefs and Cultures in

Higher Education within Internationalization”
Role: Speaker
Topic:
Venue:
Dates: Ankara, Turkey

• World Innovation Summit on Higher Education (WISE)

Role: Invited Participant
Venue: Sheraton Hotel, Doha, Qatar
Dates: December 7-9, 2010

• University of the West Indies, Mona Campus, Jamaica

Topic: “Women and Leadership in Ghana and Africa”
Venue
Date: October 26, 2010

• Guest Speaker, Graduation Ceremony of the University of the West Indies,

Cave Hill Campus, Barbados
Venue: Garfield Sobers Sports Complex
Date: October 23, 2010

• 185th UNESCO Executive Meeting

Role: Member of the Group of Experts, Financial and Administrative Matters
Venue: UNESCO Headquarters, Paris
Dates: October 5-8, 2010

• 185th UNESCO Executive Board Meeting

Role: Ghana’s Permanent Delegate

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 Venue: UNESCO Headquarters, Paris
Date: October 11-21, 2010

• Fetu Afahye of Oguaa, Women’s Day

Theme: Uniting for Development
Role: Guest Speaker
Topic: Women and Development
Venue: Ato Austin Gardens, Cape Coast
Date: September 3, 2010

• Faculty Teaching and Learning Conference

Theme:
Role: Invited Guest
Venue: Grand Valley State University, Grand Rapids, Michigan, USA
Date: August 25, 2010

• Zeta Phi Beta Sorority Inc.

Theme: “Health Justice, Education”
Role: Special International Guest
Paper Read:
Venue Anatole Hilton Hotel, Dallas, Texas, USA
Dates: 22-25 July, 2010

• Borlaug Symposium 2010

Theme: Feeding the Future: Taking it to the Farmer
Role: Discussant on Panel: “Agricultural Education: Challenges and Imperatives”
Venue: Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
Dates; July 13-15, 2010

• 38th Prize-Giving Day, Akosombo International School

Theme: “Sustaining a Viable Educational Enterprise: The role of Stakeholders”
Role; Guest Speaker
Venue: Akosombo International School Akosombo, Ghana
Date: July 14, 2010

• 14th Graduation Ceremony, Jomars Cake Decoration School

Theme:
Role: Guest Speaker
Venue: Centre for National Culture, Cape Coast
Date: July 3, 2010
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 • 75th National Convention of the National Association of Negro Business and
Professional Women’s Clubs, Inc.
Theme: “Dreams-Possibilities-Realities”
Role: Special Guest
Venue: Hyatt Regency DFW Hotel, Dallas, Texas, USA
Date: July 24, 2010

• 10th Anniversary of Queensland International School

Theme: The Quality of Education at the Basic Level : Pursuing Virtue and
Knowledge
Role: Guest Speaker
Venue: Queensland International School, Lashibi, Ghana
Date: May 15, 2010

• 184th UNESCO Executive Board Meeting

Role: Ghana’s Permanent Delegate
Venue: UNESCO Headquarters, Paris
Date: March 31- April 14, 2010

• American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) – African Humanities

Program (AHP)
Role: Member, Selection Board
Venue: ACLS Offices, New York
Dates: April 14-17, 2010

• Africa-Asia Experience Sharing Seminar

Theme: Efforts toward Improving the Quality of Education
Role: Welcome Address
Venue: Erata Hotel, Accra
Dates: January 19-22, 2010

• Ghana National Association of Teachers

Role: Keynote Speaker
Topic: “Investing in Quality Teachers”
Dates: January 5, 2010

• 17TH International African Writers Day AFRICAN WRITERS' DAY

Theme: Language. Literature and Society in a Fractured World

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Venue: Alisa Hotel, Accra, Ghana
Role: Presentation of Lead Paper
Paper Presented: Writing for the Child in a Fractured World
\dates: November 4-7, 2009.

• 183rd UNESCO Executive Board Meeting

Role: Ghana’s Permanent Delegate
Venue: UNESCO Headquarters, Paris
Date: October

• Central Regional Science, Technology and Mathematics Education Clinic for

Girls and Boys
Theme: Science and National Development
Role: Keynote Speaker
Venue: Aggrey Memorial Zion Secondary School
Date: September 17, 2009

• International Conference by the Ghana Gender Institute

Theme: “Feminization of Poverty: A Gender Challenge”
Role: Closing Comments n he theme: Feminization of Poverty: A Gender
Challenge
Venue: Sun Lodge Hotel, Tesano, Accra, Ghana
Date: September 16, 2009

• A Symposium on Kwame Nkrumah’s Philosophical Writings

The W.E.B. Du Bois Centre’s Annual Du Bois-Padmore-Nkrumah Lecture
Series
Venues: J. H. Nketiah Conference Hall, Kwame Nkrumah Complex, University
of Ghana and the W. E. B. Du Bois Memorial centre for Pan-African Culture
Dates: September 15-14, 2009

• Africa-US Higher Education Initiative Partners Conference

Theme: “Reshaping Human and Institutional Capacity Building through Higher
Education Partnerships”
Role: closing Remarks on behalf of university leaders in sub-Saharan Africa
Venue: La Palm Royal Hotel, Accra
Dates: August 27-29, 2009

• UTAG Delegates Conference

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Theme: “Education in Ghana: Which Way?”
Role: Keynote Speaker
Venue: University of Education, Winneba
Date: August 27, 2009

• 3rd Quadrennial Regional Delegates Conference

Theme: Teachers Motivation: Positive Action for Quality Education
Role: Keynote Speaker
Venue: Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Sunyani

Date: August 6, 2009

• Association for the Study of the World-wide African Diaspora (ASWAD)

Role: Keynote Speaker
Paper Presented: “In the Beginning was the Journey…Back Home”
Venue: Great Hall, University of |Ghana
Date: August 2, 2009

• 4th Biennial Congress of the Committee of Inrernal Auditors (CIA)

Theme: The Impact of Global Financial Crises on University’s Funding: The
Role of the Internal Auditor.
Role: Keynote Speaker
Paper Read: “Funding in Public Universities in Ghana within the context of the
Global Crisis”
Venue: University of Education, Winneba

• TALIF Workshop: “Training in Geographical Information Systems (GIS) and

Remote Sensing”
Sasakawa Centre, UCC
July 23, 2009

• Theme: “Improving the Quality of Polytechnic Education in Ghana through

Effective Leadership and Management”
Venue: College of Physicians and Surgeons, Accra
Role: Deliver Welcome Address
Date: July 16, 2009

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• Theme: “Working Towards Academic and Moral Excelelnce: The Role of
Stakeholders”
University of Cape Coast Junior High School 10th S0eecha nd Prizegicing Day
Venue: University of Cape Coast
Date: July 14, 2009
Role: Special Guest of Honour

• 24th Conference of the Association of Vice Chancellors of Nigeria

Universities 2009 (AVCNU2009)
Theme: Partnership Opportunities
Role: Keynote Speaker
Topic: “Bridging the Knowledge Gap: Framework for Dialogue between
University and Industry”
Venue: Illorin, Nigeria
Dates: May 31- June 4, 2009

• Conference of the Association of African Universities, (AAU)

Venue: Abuja, Nigeria
Dates: May 3-8, 2009

• UNESCO, Executive Board

Role: Presentation of Candidature
Dates: April 200 May 1, 2009
Venue: UNESCO Headquarters, Paris, France

• Association of African Literature

Theme:
Role: Presenter
Paper Read: “This is Our Story, This is Our Song: Material and Audible
Evidence of Resistance to Enslavement in Gwollu, Ghana*
Venue: University of Vermont, Burlington, VT USA
Dates: April 13-20, 2009

• Event: Graduation Ceremony: Institute of Chartered

Accountants, Ghana
Venue: International Conference Centre, Accra, Ghana
Date: Saturday, April 4, 2009
Status: Guest Speaker

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 • Event: Faculty Week Celebrations, Faculty of Social Sciences, UCC
Venue: University Auditorium
Date: March 3, 2009
Status: Keynote Speaker
Paper Presented: “Consolidating Democracy in Ghana: The Role of the Social
Sciences”

• Event: Speech Day, Wesley Girls’ High School

Venue: Wesley Girls’ High School, Cape Coast
Date: February 14, 2009
Status: Guest of Honor
Paper Presented: ‘Towards Holistic Education for the Girl Child’

• Conference of the Ghana Mathematics Society (GMS)

Role: Keynote Speaker
Venue: University of Cape Coast Auditorium of the School of Medical Sciences
Date: Friday February 13, 2009

• Event: Ghana Mathematics Society Ghana

Venue: Auditorium, School of Medical Sciences
Date: February 13, 2009
Status: Guest Speaker
Paper Presented: ‘Towards Making the Learning of Mathematics Effective’

• Theme: Africa’s Neglected Epidemics: Multidisciplinary Research and

Intervention for Chronic Disease in Africa
Paper Presented: “Leadership and Training for the Social Sciences and the
Humanities in Africa”Venue:
British Council Hall, Accra
Date: January 20, 2009

• Faculty Week, Social Sciences, UCC

Theme: “Consolidating Democracy in Ghana: Role of Social Sciences”
Date: March 3, 2009

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• AAU Conference: DATAD and International Advocacy Seminar on
Institutional Repositories
Venue: University of Ghana
Dates: March 16-18, 2009

• Event: Micro-Finance and Food Security in Africa

Date: January 15, 2009
Status: Keynote Speaker
Paper Presented: ‘Microfinance and Food Security in Africa’
Venue: Auditorium, School of Medical Sciences, UCC

• Association of Commonwealth Universities Conference of Executive Heads

Theme: “Dazzling Technologies: Seismic Shifts in Higher Education in a fast-
changing and unequal World”
Venue: Hyderabad International Convention Centre, Hyderabad, Andhra
Pradash, India
Dates: November 28-20, 2008

• Regional Conference on Higher Education

Theme: “The New Dynamics of Higher Education and Research Strategies for
Change and Development”
Venue: Dakar, Senegal
Dates: November 10-13, 2008
Role: Rapporteur

• “ ‘The Bloody Writing is Forever Torn’ Domestic and International

Consequences of the First Government Efforts to Abolish the Atlantic Salve
Trade
Venue: Accra and Elmina, Ghana
Dates: August 8-12, 2007
Role: Commentator on Panel titled ‘Legacies’

• Invited Member, Panel Discussion of the United Nations General Assembly

on the
Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade and its Legacies
New York, United Nations Headquarters
March 26, 2007

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 Paper Read: “Bearing Witness: A Discussion of the Legacies of Enslavement in
Ghana”

• Inaugural Address to the Ghana Academy of Arts and Sciences

May 30, 2006
Venue: British Council Hall, Accra
Title of Address: “Where There is No Silence: Articulations of Resistance to
Enslavement”

• 1st National Conference on Higher education and the Job Market, Ghana
Academy of Arts and Sciences/Friedrich Ebert Foundation Collaboration Ghana
Institute of Management and Public Administration (GIMPA) January 17-18,
2006
Role: Co-Chair of Conference

• Seminar by National Council for Tertiary Education (NCTE), “Program to

Improve Quality in Higher Education”
University of Ghana
December 13, 2005
Role: Invited Participant

• Meeting of Study Abroad Council

Brattleboro, Vermont, USA
November 29 – Dec. 2, 2005
Role: Executive Member

• African Studies Association 48th Annual Meeting

“Health, Knowledge and the Body/Politic in Africa and the African Diaspora”
Marriott Wardman Hotel, Washington DC
November 17-20, 2005
Paper Read: “In the Folds of Legends: Oral Accounts of the Slave Experience
in Present-Day Ghana”

• International Conference on the Study of Language in Study Abroad

Programs, School for International Training
Brattleboro, Vermont
August 8-20, 2005

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 Paper Read: “Strategies for Teaching Less Commonly Taught languages to
Foreign Students”

• National Black Theatre Festival: An International Colloquium Winston Salem

State University, Winston Salem, North Carolina, USA
August 1-6, 2005
Role: Keynote Speaker
Paper Read: “The Articulation of Change inn Literature by Women from Ghana
and Africa”

• INSAP (International Network for the Availability of Scientific Publications)

Workshop for Researchers and Librarians
University of Ghana, Legon
July 25-27, 2005
Role: Participant

• CUSAC (Commonwealth Universities Study Abroad Council) International

Programs Conference
University of Ghana, Legon
July 19-21
Paper Read: “Health, Safety and Academic Issues in Study Abroad in Ghana”

• International Conference on American Literature

National University of Modern Languages, Islamabad, Pakistan
July 7-10, 2005
Paper Read: “Silence is (Not Always) Golden: A Literary Analysis of the
Subject of Reconnection in Selected Texts by Writers from Ghana and the
USA”

• 40th Anniversary Conference of the School for International Training,

Brattleboro, Vermont, USA
May 27, 2005
Papers Read: “Reciprocity and Relationships in SIT’s Global Community”
And “Race Relations, Group and Host Country Dynamics – Experience from
the Field”
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• “The African Diaspora to Latin America: New Directions in Scholarship”
Centre for African American History
Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, USA
April 22-23, 2005
Role: Discussant

• Faculty of Arts Colloquium, University of Ghana, Legon

Role: Keynote Speaker, “Gender and the Humanities”
April 20-21, 2005

• UCCOSIS Training Program, Sanaa Lodge, Cape Coast

January 13, 2005

• Meeting of Council, School for International Training, Brattleboro, Vermont,

USA
November 15-19, 2004

• Annual Meeting of African Studies Association, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA

November 11-14, 2004

• International Conference on the Transatlantic Slave Trade: “Landmarks,

Legacies and Expectations”
Accra International Conference Centre and OATUU Conference Centre, Accra

• August 30-September 2, 2004

Paper Read: “The Issue that will not Go Away, (Even if not Attended): A
Discussion of Pan-African Relations”

• Annual workshop for Academic Directors

Mount Snow and Brattleboro, Vermont, USA
August 9-20, 2004
Paper Presented: “Managing Community Relations”

• Regional Workshop on Field Research Methodology and Independent Study

Project
Cape Town, South Africa, January 16-23, 2004
Paper Presented: “Strategies for the conduct of Interviews”

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• CUSAC Members Meeting: ‘Benchmarking University Practices in Risk and
Responsibility for Study Abroad Programs’
Queen’s University, Kingston, Canada, May 19-21, 2004
Paper Read: “Health and Safety Issues in College Abroad Programs”

• International Conference on ‘Literary manifestations of the African Diaspora’

(November 10-14, 2003) at the University of Cape Coast and sponsored by the
University of Cape Coast and Harriet Tubman Resource Centre on African
Diaspora, York University, Canada in collaboration with the UNESCO Slave
Route Project
Role: Co-Convener
Paper Read: “Ayi Kwei Armah’s Osiris Rising and Florence Ladd’s Sarah’s
Psalm on the subject of Homecoming”

• 10th Anniversary of Graduate Students Association of Ghana (GRASAG) on

Nov. 20, 2003
University Auditorium
Paper Read: “Post Graduate Education in Ghana: Government Policy Direction,
Challenges and Prospects”

• National Conference on the Historic Slave Traffic: Rediscovering Ghana’s

Slave Routes” OAATUU Conference Centre, Accra Nov. 3-5, 2003
Role: Invited Participant
Paper Read: “Living the Experience of Resistance to the Slave Trade in Sankana
and Gwollu”: Literary Significance and Implications for Tourism”

• Annual Conference for Academic Directors, Brattleboro and Leiden, Vermont,

USA
August 14-21, 2003

• Regional Conference for Academic Directors, Casablanca and Marrakech,

Morocco,
June 6-11, 2003

• “The Trans-Atlantic Construction of the Notions of ‘Race’, Black Culture,

Blackness and Antiracism: Towards a new Dialogue Between Researchers In
Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean”

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 Paper Presented: “And Still They Fight: Literary and Cultural Manifestations of
Resistance to Slavery in selected locals in Ghana and Benin”
Goree, Senegal, November 11-17, 2002

• “Leadership and Strategic Change in Higher Education for Heads of

Commonwealth Universities in Africa”
University of Abertay, Dundee, Scotland, August 11 -16, 2002

• “Annual Academic Directors’ Conference”

School for International Training, Brattleboro, Vermont, USA
August 5 -11 2002

• Komenda Training Council Workshop on Development, Komenda,

August 2002

• NETRIGHT in Collaboration with MOWA/NCWD Public Form “Why should

District Level Elections Concern Women?” Cape Coast Town Hall, June 26,
2006. Chairperson.

• “The State of the Art(s): African and American Studies in Comparative

Perspective”,
University of Cape Coast, April 8 – 11, 2002
Paper Presented: “ Ghanaian Writers and the Making of the African Diaspora”

• National Conference of the Credit Union Association, Ghana National

Association of Teachers Hostel, Cape Coast, May 17 2000
Paper Presented: “Making the Credit Union Gender Sensitive”

• “Nation/Nationlism: A Common Enterprise”, Sasakawa Center, University of

Cape Coast,
June 21-24 1999
Paper Presented: “Slavery and Women’s Voices”

• African Readerships Conference, University of Cambridge, may 15 1999,

Paper Read: “Reading Love Stories by Women from Ghana”.

• “Using Library and Archival Resources in Ghana” Paper Presented at the 37th
Annual Standing Conference on Library Materials on Africa (SCOLMA)
Institute of Commonwealth Studies, University of London, May 18 1999.

• “Women in Akan Folktale” Guildford College, North Carolina USA,

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• “Uses of the Traditional Tale in Ghana” Salem College, North Carolina, USA
January 20 1999

• “African Story Telling Frees Us: The Traditional Tale and Human Rights”
Wake Forest University, North Carolina
January 21 1999

• “The Susu Savings System: Women’s Response to the Credit System”

Lecture given to American Exchange Students (Elon College, North Carolina)
January 1999.

• “Women and Development in Ghana” Lecture given to students of the school

for International Training, Diaspora Program, March 1999

• “Women, Culture and Religion in Ghana” Symposium on Women and

Religion, Sasakawa Center, University of Cape Coast
March 1999

• “The Education of Women in Ghana” Lecture Given to American Exchange

Students,
(University of Denver, Colorado) Coconut Grove, Elmina, June 1998

• “What American Students Should Know about Ghana” Lecture given to

participants of the Fulbright Hayes Programs
August 1998

• “Literature By Women From Ghana” University of Cape Coast, to Participants,

School for International Training,
April 1997

• The 1996 Valco Trust Fund Writers’ Workshop Sekondi-Takoradi Workers

College
October 24 – 29
Resource Person for the Short Story and Imaginative Essay
Paper Read: “The Short Story in Ghana: Special Challenges”.

• University of Ohio/University of Ghana Summer Institute on African

Literature,
University of Ghana, August 7 1996,

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 Paper Read: “Narrative Turns in Ama Ata Aidoo’s No Sweetness Here.

• “Slave Narratives and Ghanaian Women’s Voices” University of Cape Coast

for Participants of School for International Training, April 1996

• “Issues In Education”, University of Cape Coast, for Students from Davidson

College, USA
June 1996.

• First Annual Conference of the English Studies Association of Ghana, Legon,

Africana Studies Summer Institute,
July 9 – August 6 1995
Paper Read: “Africana Literary Criticism”.

• Ghana Association of Teachers of English Regional Conference, University of

Cape Coast August 1995
Paper Read: “A Critical Assessment of the English Syllabi at the Junior and
Senior Secondary Schools in Ghana”.

• “Women In the Akan Tale” Fine Art Building, Washington State University,
Pullman, WA. USA
April 1994.

• “Beyond the Firelight: The Pedagogical Value of the Akan Folktale” Knoxville
College, Knoxville, Tennessee, USA March 1994, Women’s Resistance in
African Literature University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, Tennessee, USA
March 1994.

• “Women and African Literature: An Appraisal” Bennet College, Greensboro,

North Carolina
March 1994.

• “The Female Protagonist In The Plays of Ama Atta Aidoo, Efua Sutherland and
Patience Addo” Arkansas Baptist College, Little Rock Arkansas, USA
March 1994

• “The Changing Roles of Women in African Literature” Shorter College, Little

Rock, Arkansas, USA
March 1994

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• “African Women and Literature” Provost’s Symposium On African Studies: A
Salute to the Women of Africa. Woodson Hall, Grambling State University,
February 1994.

• “Portrait of A Woman: Ama Ata Aidoo’s Anowa” Women of Minorities Series.

Women’s Studies Center, Eastern Washington University
May 1993.

• “The African Folktale: A Tool for Education” Reception Hall, Eastern

Washington University
April 1993.

• “The Modern Professional African Woman” Zonta Special Events Hospitality

Inn,
Spokane, Washington, USA April 1993.

• “Challenges for the Ghanaian Professional Woman” National Union of Ghana

Students Woman’s Caucus Auditorium, University of Cape Coast, April 1989.

• “Politics of Silence: The Case of the Pre-School Child” National Seminar on

Peace and Development Faculty of Science Building, University of Cape Coast,
December 1987.

• “Towards Releasing the Potentials of Women For National Development”

School of Administration, University of Ghana, Legon
September 1987.

• The 1996 Valco Trust Fund Writers’ Workshop, Sekondi-Takoradi Workers

College,
October 24-29 Resource Person for the Short Story and Imaginative Essay
Paper Read: “The Short Story in Ghana: Special Challenges”.

• University of Ohio/University of Ghana Summer Institute on African

Literature,
University of Ghana: Special Challenges”.

• First Annual Conference of the English Studies Association of Ghana,

University
College of Education, Winneba,
June 13 – 16 1996

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• Second International Conference on Oral Literature in Africa, University of
Ghana, Legon
October 24 – 30
Paper Read: “Gender Role Perceptions in the Akan Folktale”. Africana Literary
Criticism”.

• Ghana Association of Teachers of English Regional Conference, University of

Cape Coast August 1995
Paper Read: “ A Critical Assessment of the English Syllabi at the Junior and
Senior Secondary Schools in Ghana”.

• National Seminar on Improving access to Quality Education for Girls, Novotel,

Accra, Ghana
June 12 – 16 1995
Role: Chair and Discussant

• Enhancing Gender Research and Training: Dialogue with Policy Maker,

Politicians and NGO’s British Council/Women and Development Studies,
Institute of African Studies, University of Ghana, Legon
February 21 – 24 1995
Role: Participant.

• Thirteenth Annual Lewis and Clark College Gender Studies Symposium,

Portland, Oregon, USA
April 1994
Paper Read: Images of “Women in Plays by women from Ghana”.

• Ngugi wa Thiong’o: Texts and Contexts An International Conference, Penn

State
University Berks Campus
April 1994
Paper Read: “Ngugi wa Thiong’o and the Responsibility of the Artist”.

• National Council of Black Studies Annual Conference, Accra, August 1993,

Paper Read: “Ama Ata Aidoo’s Anowa”.

• American Association of African Literature (ALA) Northwestern University,

Evanston, Illinois USA
April 1985
Paper Read: “The Middle Class in the Works of Ngugi wa Thiong’o”.

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• Canadian Association of African Studies (CAAS) Laval University, Quebec
City
Canada, 1982
Role: Discussant

• CAAS, University of Edmonton, Alberta,

Canada 1981
Role: Participant

• CAAS University of Winnipeg, Manibota, Canada 1981

Role: Participant

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