#  Emmanuel Akyeampong  

 



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**Emmanuel Akyeampong** is Oppenheimer Faculty Director of the Harvard University Center for African Studies and Professor of History and of African and African American Studies at *Harvard University*. He was appointed Loeb Harvard College Professor in July 2005. **Akyeampong** is a Fellow of the *Ghana Academy of Arts and Sciences (FGA)*, and a Corresponding Fellow of the *Royal Historical Society (UK)*. He serves as the president of the *African Public Broadcasting Foundation (US)*, a partnership of academic researchers, African broadcasters and African producers dedicated to the production of development oriented programs for broadcast on television, radio and the Internet. He is a co-founder and director of the *International Institute for the Advanced Study of Cultures, Institutions and Economic Enterprise* (IIAS: [www.interias.org.gh](http://www.interias.org.gh)) based in Accra, Ghana. He served as chair of the *Committee on African Studies* at Harvard from July 2002 to June 2006.