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Hassan Wahab (PhD)

Full-Time Faculty – Law, Humanities & Social Sciences

Dr. Hassan Wahab is an Associate Professor in the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences at Ashesi University. He is the editor of the SoTL Africa publication, and the Race and Equality section of the Review of Religions, London. He previously worked as Senior Lecturer in the political science department at the University of Ghana, Legon; managing editor of Africa Today, a peer-reviewed academic journal published by Indiana University Press through the University’s African Studies Program; lecturer of political science, and assistant director of International Programs at Chicago State University.

Dr. Wahab obtained his first bachelor’s degree in religions and philosophy from the University of Ghana, Legon, a second bachelor’s degree in political science from the University of Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada; first master’s degree in political studies from the University of Guelph, Ontario, Canada; a second master’s degree in African American and African diaspora studies, and a PhD in political science from Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, USA.

  • Leadership I
  • Leadership IV
  • Politics of Welfare
  • African Politics
  • Democracy & Democratization
  • Wahab, H. (with Aka, P.C., & Alex-Assensoh, Y.M.). (2022). The Political Economy of Universal Healthcare in Africa. Evidence from Ghana. London, UK: Routledge.
  • Wahab, H. (2019). Democracy, Civil Society, and the Emergence of National Health Insurance in Ghana. In J. A. Ayee (ed.), Politics, Governance and Development in Ghana (pp. 67-82). Lanham, MD: Lexington Books.
  • Wahab, H. (2014). Universal Healthcare Coverage: Assessing the Implementation of Ghana’s NHIS Law. In T. Falola and E. M. Mbah (eds.), Intellectual Agent, Mediator and Interlocutor: A. B. Assensoh and African Politics in Transition (pp. 188-199). Newcastle, UK: Cambridge Scholars Publishing.
  • Wahab, H., & Aka, P. C. (2020). The Politics of Healthcare Reforms in Ghana under the Fourth Republic Since 1993: A Critical Analysis. Canadian Journal of African Studies/Revue canadienne des études africaines, 55(1), 203-221.
  • Wahab, H. (2019). The Politics of State Welfare Expansion in Africa: Emergence of National Health Insurance in Ghana, 1993-2004. Africa Today, 65(3), 90-112.
  • PhD in Political Science, Indiana University, Bloomington
  • MA African American and African Diaspora Studies, Indiana University, Bloomington,
  • Political Studies, MA University of Guelph, ON. Canada
  • Political Science, BA University of Winnipeg, MB. Canada,
  • BA Religions and Philosophy, University of Ghana, Legon
Prof. Hassan Wahab
hwahab@ashesi.edu.gh