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I received my PhD in African History from Queen's University in 1998. Prior to this, I completed an MA in African History at Queen's University and an undergraduate degree in Business Administration, (HBA, Co-op) from Wilfrid Laurier University.
My research interests include the idea and practice of development in Africa and the global history of disability and disability rights.
- "‘I nearly lost my work’: chance encounters, legal empowerment and the struggle for disability rights in Ghana,” Disability and Society, 30(1)(2015).
- “Pan-Africanism, Socialism and the Future: Development Planning in Ghana, 1951-1966,” with Holger Weiss, in The Struggle for the Long-Term in Transnational Science and Politics: Forging the Future, eds. Jenny Andersson and Egle Rindzeviciute (Routledge, 2015).
- “Disability and Rehabilitation in Late Colonial Ghana,” Review of Disability Studies, 7(3&4)(2011): 43-51.
- "Kwame Nkrumah, Disability and Rehabilitation In Ghana, 1957-66,” Journal of African History, 52(2)(2011): 179-99.
- “Colonial famine relief and development policies: Towards an environmental history of Northern Ghana,” Global Environment (forthcoming, 2012). With Holger Weiss “Social Capital, Chiefs and Agrarian Change in Southern Ghana,” Journal of Agrarian Change (Vol.8, No.1, 2008).
- “The Power of Social Capital: Historical Case Studies from Colonial Uganda and the Gold Coast,” Canadian Journal of African Studies, 42(1)(2008):98-130. With Glenn McKnight. "K.R.S. Morris and Tsetse Control in Ghana, 1926-51," Africa (November 2006).
- Shaping Tradition: Civil Society, Community and Development in Colonial Northern Ghana, 1899-1957. Brill Academic Press (November, 2006).
- "Capitalism (Africa)," New Dictionary of the History of Ideas (New York, Charles Scribner's Sons), 2005.
- "Rhyming Development: Practising Post-Development in Colonial Ghana and Uganda," Journal of Historical Sociology (16)(4)(December, 2003), with Glenn McKnight.
- "Late Colonial Development in British West Africa: The Gonja Development Project in the Northern Territories of the Gold Coast, 1948-57," Canadian Journal of African Studies (35)(2)(2001).
- "Corruptions of Development in the Northern Territories of the Gold Coast, 1927-1957," Journal of Peasant Studies, 26(1)(October, 1998).
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