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unusual facts about Institute of African Studies


Institute of African Studies

The Institute of African Studies on the campus of the University of Ghana at Legon is an interdisciplinary research institute in the humanities and social sciences.



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Alexey Vasilyev

Alexei Mikhailovich Vasiliev (born 1939), Russian Africanist, director of Institute of African Studies

Atenteben

In 1979, the neo-traditional art music composer and founder of the Pan African Orchestra of Ghana, Nana Danso Abiam (b. 1953) introduced chromaticism and atonality in atenteben music with a new fingering mechanism that he had developed at the Institute of African Studies, University of Ghana, Legon.

Lola Lonli

In 1994 and 1995, together with Union of African Persons and Institute of African studies (part of Russian Academy of Sciences), she conducted two exhibitions – performances which included musical fests, lectures, selling of African handicrafts, international meetings and business seminars.

Okot p'Bitek

He was at the Institute of African Studies of University College, Nairobi from 1971 as a senior research fellow and lecturer, with visiting positions at University of Texas at Austin and University of Ife in Nigeria in 1978/9.

Yaba Badoe

Badoe also was a researcher at the Institute of African Studies at the University of Ghana.