Dr. Evelyn Folake Kissi to Interview Samia Nkrumah, June 25, 2023
Dr. Evelyn Kissi is an African tri-citizen, Black Disability, and Transnational scholar of Ghana, Nigeria, and Canada. Her interdisciplinary research interests intersect with Black Critical Disability, Transnational Studies, Black Global Health, and Lifespan Studies and Education. Dr. Kissi has worked in North America, Africa, and Europe with not-for-profit organizations, women's groups, education institutions, and disability advocacy groups.
Her Ph.D. research in Critical Disability Studies focused on the construct of disablement—particularly how it functions to support systemic oppression—and is a chronological and thematic study using archival methods and primary accounts of European interlopers in the Coast of Guinea to examine how the Indigenous African bodies were produced, represented, silenced and institutionalized. Using the political thought/analysis of Nkrumah, it examined ways in which pre-colonial European accounts attended to Disability, Child Development, Gender Discourses, Family Health, Spirituality among the Akan people, the ramifications and significant connection to Africans in the continent, and the Black diaspora. The dissertation situates pre-formation 1600 Ghana as the Gulf of Guinea; Nation-State Ghana as my research setting; and the Akan nation as my site. The timeline that I engaged with was from 1600 – 1960; I use the pre-colonial to contextualize pre-formation Ghana before 1880 as per Boahen (1987), and post-colonial to signify post-independent Nkrumah (1960).
She is currently a Lecturer (Assistant Professor) at the University of Ghana in the Department of Teacher Education program.
Sunday, June 25, 2023
4:00 PM Ghana // 5:00 PM Nigeria // 11:00 AM Austin CST
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https://www.tfinterviews.com/post/samia-nkrumah
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