Biography

Dr. E. Sasu Kwame Sewordor is a postdoc in Urban Studies at the University of Basel (Switzerland), where he earned his doctorate. He is a global urban historian of 19th– and 20th–century West Africa, with a particular interest in Ghana.

His works have appeared in multi-disciplinary journals including, African Studies Review, Canadian Journal of African Studies, Journal of West African History, African Economic History, and Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, co-edited African History between Ghana and Switzerland: Essays Honouring Paul Jenkins (Basler Afrika Bibliographien Publishing House, 2024) and is currently working on his first book project titled "Colour of Gold: Race, infrastructure and the Urbanisation of Mining Hinterlands in Southern Colonial Ghana."

His ongoing project builds on his award-winning article published in the Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians (2022), titled "The Urban Culture of the 'Model' Christian Settlement at Abokobi, Ghana, 1854–1929." It is a transatlantic architectural and urban history that traces the transfer of built utopian Christianised spaces between Germany and Ghana through the agency of the Swiss-led Basel Mission.

He brings rich experience to lead the revival of the Ghana Studies Association's Newsletter, set to be published in the first quarter of 2026.