• Professor in Africana & Latin American Studies, Colgate University

Kwasi Konadu is John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Endowed Chair and Professor at Colgate University, where he teaches courses in African history and on worldwide African histories and cultures.

With extensive archival and field research in West Africa, Europe, Brazil, the Caribbean and North America, Konadu's writings focus on African and African diasporic histories, as well as major themes in world history. He is the author of Our Own Way in This Part of the World: Biography of an African Community, Culture, and Nation (Duke University Press, 2019), The Ghana Reader: History, Culture, Politics, co-authored by (with Clifford Campbell, Duke University Press, 2016), Transatlantic Africa, 1440-1888 (Oxford University Press, 2014), The Akan Diaspora in the Americas (Oxford University Press, 2010), among other books.

• –present John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Endowed Chair and Professor, Colgate University

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