Background
Emmanuel K. Akyeampong was born on February 21, 1962, in Kumasi, Ghana. He is a son of John W. and Salome A. Akyeampong.
University of Ghana P.O. Box LG 25 Legon, Ghana, Accra, Greater Accra Region, Ghana
Akyeampong graduated with B.A. from the University of Ghana in 1984.
Wake Forest University 1834 Wake Forest Road Winston-Salem, NC 27109
Akyeampong acquired his M.A. in European history at Wake Forest University in 1989.
University of Virginia Peabody Hall P.O. Box 400160 Charlottesville, VA 22904
In 1993 Akyeampong earned his Ph.D. in African studies at the University of Virginia.
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This book is well-written, accessible to a variety of readers, thoroughly researched, original in approach and insight, and broad in its implications. Akyeampong takes very seriously the challenge of conceiving African history in terms of indigenous intellectual categories and in terms of the experience of those involved. Real people come to life in these pages. - Charles Ambler, University of Texas Drink, Power, and Cultural Change presents a social history of alcohol in southern Ghana over the past century and a half and highlights its centrality in the culture of power. Alcohol could bridge the gap between the spiritual and living worlds, as the blessings of the gods and ancestors were necessary for success. This made alcohol an indispensable fluid, access to which was highly contested. Liquor revenues were critical for British colonialism, while protests against liquor regulations formed a significant part of local politics and drinking bars were hotbeds of nationalist agitation. Akyeampong's innovative analysis blends the disciplinary approaches of history, anthropology, social medicine, theology, and political science. A wide variety of sources forms the basis of his study, including proverbs, highlife music, comic opera, popular literature, and photographs in addition to the more familiar colonial and missionary archives and oral tradition. Drink, Power, and Cultural Change presents a novel lens through which to examine African social history, and its concern with questions of ritual, gender, power, and health gives it a very broad appeal.
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1996
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This study offers a “social interpretation of environmental process” for the coastal lowlands of southeastern Ghana. The Anlo-Ewe, sometimes hailed as the quintessential sea fishermen of the West African coast, are a previously non-maritime people who developed a maritime tradition. As a fishing community the Anlo have a strong attachment to their land. In the twentieth century coastal erosion has brought about a collapse of the balance between nature and culture. The Anlo have sought spiritual explanations but at the same time have responded politically by developing broader ties with Ewe-speaking peoples along the coast. This study offers a “social interpretation of environmental process” for the coastal lowlands of southeastern Ghana. The Anlo-Ewe, sometimes hailed as the quintessential sea fishermen of the West African coast, are a previously non-maritime people who developed a maritime tradition. As a fishing community the Anlo have a strong attachment to their land. In the twentieth century coastal erosion has brought about a collapse of the balance between nature and culture. The Anlo have sought spiritual explanations but at the same time have responded politically by developing broader ties with Ewe-speaking peoples along the coast.
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2002
Emmanuel K. Akyeampong was born on February 21, 1962, in Kumasi, Ghana. He is a son of John W. and Salome A. Akyeampong.
Akyeampong graduated with B.A. from the University of Ghana in 1984. His M.A. in European history was acquired at Wake Forest University in 1989. In 1993 Akyeampong earned his Ph.D. in African studies at the University of Virginia.
Akyeampong started his career as an instructor in history at University of Virginia, Charlottesville in 1992. Since 1993 up to 1997 Akyeampong holds the position of assistant professor at Harvard University, Cambridge. Since 1997 he continues as an associate professor of history. The last decade of the 20th century in his career is marked by a number of public speaking performances at educational institutions, including Boston University, 1995 and 1996, London School of Oriental and African Studies, 1996, University of Frankfurt and University of California, Los Angeles, both 1997, and Boston College, 1998.
Akyeampong now holds the position of Oppenheimer Faculty Director of the Harvard University Center for African Studies and Professor of History and of African and African American Studies at Harvard University.
Akyeampong is also known as contributor of articles and reviews to periodicals, including Culture, Medicine, and Psychiatry, International Journal of African Historical Studies, Journal of African History, and Past and Present and Africa review editor, Social History of Alcohol Review.
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1996(This study offers a “social interpretation of environment...)
2002(This book is a monograph on the historical retrospective ...)
1997
African Studies Association , United States
West Africa Research Association , United States
Ghana Academy of Arts and Sciences , Ghana
Royal Historical Society , United Kingdom
African Public Broadcasting Foundation , United States
International Institute for the Advanced Study of Cultures, Institutions and Economic Enterprise , Ghana
Committee on African Studies , United States
2002 - 2006
Ghana Studies Council
Alcohol and Temperance History Group
Akyeampong married Ruth A. Osebre on August 20, 1995.