Kwesi Amoak

Kwesi Amoak

TEAM LEAD, ALUMNI OUTREACH INITIATIVE 

Kwesi Amoak is the Lead for the Africa-America Institute’s (AAI) Alumni Outreach Initiative. He is currently a Mellon PhD Fellow at the Institute of African Studies (IAS), University of Ghana and he is a Visiting Postgraduate Researcher at the University of Edinburgh’s Moray House School of Education and Sport. He is also a Gurus and Griot Fellow at the IE University in Madrid, Spain. 

With a background in philosophy, education, historical research, and development communication practice, Kwesi’s multi/interdisciplinary research interests and expertise are in educational anthropology, arts-based reflexive ethnography, decolonisation, African indigenous knowledges and pedagogies (with focus on creativity and health), historiography of African arts, (auto)biographical research/writing and bioethics. 

Kwesi has recently been a recipient of two Wellcome Trust small grant awards through University of Oxford’s Health Systems Collaborative and the Decolonisation and Global Health Research Exchange Network for his research work on intellectual property rights and the ethics of indigenous healing among the Bulsa of Northern Ghana.