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Albert Adu Boahen
Albert A. Adu Boahen is Emeritus Professor at the Department of History, University of Ghana. He is Ghana’s most renowned historian, also noted for both his political activism and international role as a visiting professor to universities throughout the world, and as a consultant to UNESCO. Amongst his many books and papers on modern and colonial history, he is author of the monographs Mfantsipim and the Making of Ghana: A Centenary History 1876–1976, for which he won the Noma Award for Publishing in Africa in 1997. He was also editor of UNESCO’s eight volume History of Africa series.