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Osei-Mensah Aborampah

  • Professor Emeritus, African & African Diaspora Studies

Education

  • PhD, University of Wisconsin, Madison

Teaching Interests

  • Survey of societies and cultures of Black peoples in the Americas and Africa
  • Extended families in Black societies
  • Change in African and African-American communities

Research Interests

  • Traditional and modern cultures of Africa
  • Black America and the Caribbean African
  • African-American and Afro-Caribbean family and demographic patterns
  • Women and development in Africa

Selected Publications

(2011) Extended Families in Africa and the African Diaspora.Aborampah, O. , & Sudakasa, N. (Eds). Africa World Press.
Aborampah, O. (2005) Out of the Same Bowl: Religious Beliefs and Practices in the Akan Communities in Ghana and Jamaica.Bellegarde-Smith, P. (Ed). Fragments of Bone: Neo-African Religions in a New World, 124-142. University of Illinois Press.
Aborampah, O. (2004) Encyclopedia of the Dead: Transgenerational Memories and Cultural Transmission Among the Akan of Ghana.Ghana Studies Journal, 7, 115-135.
Aborampah, O. , & Vann, A. (2000) The State of African-American Families in Milwaukee.Battle, S. F.(Ed). The State of Black Milwaukee, 39-56.

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