A Visual Interpretation of Photos taken from
the Basel Mission Picture Archive
by Emmanuel Akyeampong
Biography
Emmanuel Akyeampong completed his Ph.D. in African history at the
University of Virginia in 1993, and is Professor of History at Harvard
University.
His articles on the social and cultural history of Ghana have
appeared in Histoire Sociale; Culture, Medicine, and Psychiatry; the
International Journal of African Historical Studies; and the Journal of
African History.
He gives courses on West African history, Islam in Sub-
Saharan Africa, comparative slavery, gender in African history, health,
disease, and ecology in African history, and the social history of
alcohol.
Research interests include ecology, social history, and cultural history.
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