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Ishmael AnnangIshmael joined the doctoral program in African history at the Department of History in 2019. He had both his undergraduate Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) and graduate Master of Philosophy (M.Phil.) degrees in History at the University of Ghana, Legon. He has broad research and teaching interests in precolonial Africa, modern Africa, the African Atlantic, health and healing in Africa, indigenous slavery in Ghana, and the environmental history of Africa, particularly how Africa’s environmental setting shaped Atlantic interactions in Africa and its diaspora. He is currently writing a dissertation on Agricultural festivals and (spi)ritual ecologies in the Volta River basin of Ghana during the early modern period. Outside of history, he enjoys working out at the gym and taking his Zumba classes seriously.
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