Biography

Dr. Nana Yaw Boampong Sapong is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of History, University of Ghana, Legon. He specializes in 18th to 21st century social history of West Africa, with reference to Ghana, labor, social movements, and university studies. He teaches graduate and undergraduate courses in African history, political and social movements, theory and methods, and historiography.

Nana currently serves as chair of graduate studies at the Department of History, University of Ghana, Legon. He is also a creative writer and has written for the The ACU Review (Association of Commonwealth Universities).

Nana is a consultant and co-investigator on the project "Where Have the Workers Gone? Labour and Work in Ghana, 1951-2010," which includes colleagues from the University of Ghana, University of Cambridge, University of Cape Coast, and Humboldt University zu Berlin, and was generously funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council, UK (AHRC) and the German Research Foundation (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft DFG) Partnership.

His forthcoming publications include book chapters on women's mobilization in Ghana (Cambridge University Press) and youth and Ghana's political economy in the long twentieth century (Boydell and Brewer).

Nana Sapong is a lifetime member of the Ghana Studies Association and a co-editor of Ghana Studies journal.