Centre for Creative Industries, Media and Screen Studies
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- Qualifications
- BA PhD (London)
- Email address
- jp23@soas.ac.uk
Biography
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John is Senior Lecturer in the History of Africa at SOAS.
He is the author of ‘Making the Town: Ga State and Society in Early Colonial Accra’, ‘Tongnaab: The History of a West African God’ and ‘African History: A Very Short Introduction’. He is currently researching a book on the history of death and burial in Ghana and is editing ‘The Oxford Handbook of Modern African History’ with his colleague Richard Reid.
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Urban History; Coastal History; North-South cultural flows
PhD Supervision
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| Name | Title |
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| Miss Senem Gökel | Leprosy, Empire and Exclusion: the case of Cyprus under Ottoman and British rules, late nineteenth to early twentieth centuries |
| Ms Brandi Simpson Miller | A Social History of Food and Cooking in Ghana in the 19th Century |
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