Kwame Adika

Kwame Adika, P. earned his PhD in African and African Diasporan Studies from the Illinois State University, and currently lectures in the Department of English, University of Ghana, Legon where he teaches courses such as Ghanaian Literature, Studies in African Prose, Practice in Criticism, Poetry and Society in Africa, Literature for Critical Thinking and Analysis, Critical Issues in African Literature, Oral Literature, The Short Story and Literatures of the African Diaspora. He has presented conference papers in Africa, Europe, and the Americas, and has published academic papers in the areas of transnational poetics, African and African Diasporan literatures, and the interface between orality and script cultures.

Dr. Adika has also adjudicated on various panels for creative literature and has served as a resource person to workshops both in Ghana and abroad.