Edmund Abaka is a photographer and historian of Africa at the
University of Miami
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in
Coral Gables, Florida
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.
He is a graduate of the
University of Cape Coast in
Ghana
Ghana (; tw, Gaana, ee, Gana), officially the Republic of Ghana, is a country in West Africa. It abuts the Gulf of Guinea and the Atlantic Ocean to the south, sharing borders with Ivory Coast in the west, Burkina Faso in the north, and To ...
and received his master's from the
University of Guelph
, mottoeng = "to learn the reasons of realities"
, established = May 8, 1964 ()As constituents: OAC: (1874) Macdonald Institute: (1903) OVC: (1922)
, type = Public university
, chancellor ...
in Canada. He received his
PhD PHD or PhD may refer to:
* Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), an academic qualification
Entertainment
* '' PhD: Phantasy Degree'', a Korean comic series
* ''Piled Higher and Deeper'', a web comic
* Ph.D. (band), a 1980s British group
** Ph.D. (Ph.D. albu ...
from
York University
York University (french: Université York), also known as YorkU or simply YU, is a public university, public research university in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It is Canada's fourth-largest university, and it has approximately 55,700 students, 7,0 ...
in 1998.
He is a
Fulbright scholar
The Fulbright Program, including the Fulbright–Hays Program, is one of several United States Cultural Exchange Programs with the goal of improving intercultural relations, cultural diplomacy, and intercultural competence between the people of ...
.
Selected publications
* ''"Kola is God's Gift": Agricultural Production, Export Initiatives and the Kola Industry of Asante and the Gold Coast, c. 1820–1950''. Ohio University Press, Athens, 2005. (Western African Studies)
* ''Culture And Customs of Ethiopia''. 2007
* ''House of Slaves and "Door of No Return": Gold Coast/Ghana Slave Forts, Castles & Dungeons and the Atlantic Slave Trade''. University of Wisconsin Press
* ''W. E. B. Du Bois on Africa'' (edited with
Eugene F. Provenzo)
References
External links
*https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Edmund_Abaka
*http://eabaka.tripod.com/
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
University of Miami faculty
Historians of Africa
York University alumni
University of Cape Coast alumni
University of Guelph alumni
Ghanaian photographers
Place of birth missing (living people)
Nationality missing
Ghanaian emigrants to the United States
Historians from Florida
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