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Join us as Professor Professor Sackeyfio-Lenoch examines the cultural diplomacy of Ghanaian authorities for the return of the “Asante Crown Jewels” held in British Museums in the years surrounding the Centenary of an Anglo-Ashanti War in the mid-1970s amidst calls to decolonize heritage practices.

ABOUT THE SPEAKER:

Naaborko Sackeyfio-Lenoch is Associate Professor of African History at Dartmouth College. She specializes in 20th century African history with a focus on Ghana and West Africa. She is author of The Politics of Chieftaincy: Authority and Property in Colonial Ghana: 1920-1950 (Boydell and Brewer, 2014). Her work has appeared in edited collections along with articles in several journals including the International Journal of African History Studies, History in Africa, International Review of Social History and the Journal of West African History. She currently services on the Editorial Board of the flagship African History Journal, The Journal of African History. Her research has been supported by the Fulbright IIE (Institute of International Education) and the American Council of Learned Societies.

Questions of decolonization, African internationalism, post-independence nationhood, and transnational/global cultural projects animate her current work. She is completing a monograph titled Global Ghana and the Arts: Cultural Production and Intellectual Life in Postcolonial Africa, 1960-1992 that traces the country’s cultural institutions and the intellectual projects developed by Ghanaians at home and abroad during the 1960s-early 1990s.

At Dartmouth she currently serves as the House Professor for West House, one of the six house communities on campus, where she leads the community’s intellectual engagement, cross-cultural exchange, social interaction, wellness programming, and social justice initiatives.