Philip C. Aka (PhD)
Full-time: Political Science
Professor of Political Science at Ashesi University. Dr. Aka is a legal scholar and former Dean of the Law Faculty at the International University of Sarajevo, among other teaching and administrative positions; and author or coauthor of over 130 published works, including 10 books.
- China-Africa Relations
- ESG: Corporate Ethics in Africa
- Seminar in Computer Ethics
- Application of human rights in domestic and external relations
- Realizing Human Rights in the Second Centenary of Africa’s Political Independence: Besting Our Ancestors (University of Wales Press, forthcoming 2026) (with Obasi Okafor-Obasi)
- Human Rights in Nigeria’s External Relations in the Age of General Muhammadu Buhari and His Successors: Loving the Foreigner as Yourself (Palgrave Macmillan)
- Navigating the Tension Between Sovereignty and Self-Determination in Postcolonial Africa: Blueprints for the Midcentury (Palgrave Macmillan, 2024)
- Bosnia as Civic State and Global Citizen: Alternative Futures Outside the EU (Rowman & Littlefield, 2022)
- The Political Economy of Universal Healthcare in Africa: Evidence from Ghana (Routledge, 2022).
- SJD (PhD equivalent) in Law, IU Robert H. McKinney School of Law, Indianapolis, Indiana, USA
- PhD in Political Science, Howard University (best graduating student in Political Science)
- LL.M (summa cum laude), IU Robert H. McKinney School of Law, Indianapolis, Indiana, USA
- JD, Temple University Beasley School of Law, Philadelphia, PA
- M.A. in Political Science, University of North Texas, Denton, TX (Founding Member, Kappa Chapter, Phi Beta Delta Honor Society for International Scholars).
- B.A. in Political Science (magna cum laude), Edinboro University of Pennsylvania
- Certificate in Conflict Resolution, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York
- Certificate in Social Justice, Justice University (Center for Economic and Social Justice), Washington DC
