Centre for African Popular Culture

With support from a small community of stakeholders in the popular culture community, the Centre for African Popular Culture at Ashesi seeks to lead and develop scholarship on African Popular culture; to highlight popular art forms and by extension, popular artists; mentor the next generation of scholars in African popular culture and capture the current and emerging lifeworld of African popular culture.

Focusing on African Culture

Currently responsible for designing classes on Ghanaian Popular Culture at Ashesi, the Center's goal is to promote the humanities as a critical component in broadening students' awareness of the world's complexity and diversity.

Meet the Centre Director

Dr. Oduro-Frimpong is one of two Ghanaian scholars named as African Humanities Programme (AHP) Postdoctoral Fellow (2014-2015) by the American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS). His current work broadly focuses on Ghanaian popular culture/media and his research interests include Media Anthropology, African Popular (Visual) Culture, Urban Ghana and Intercultural/Interpersonal Communication.

Learn more about Dr. Oduro Frimpong