Assistant Professor of History
Office: 406 Carson Hall
Office Phone: (603) 646-2365
Fax: (603) 646-3353
Email: Naaborko.Sackeyfio@Dartmouth.edu
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Naaborko Sackeyfio received her Ph.D. in African history from the University of Wisconsin, Madison in 2008. Her cross-cultural and personal experience of growing up in northern Nigeria, and reconnection to family ties in Ghana inspired her to pursue research in African history. She specializes in West African history. Her teaching at Dartmouth includes survey courses on pre-colonial and modern African history, and slavery in West African history.
Her current research focuses on chieftaincy and land politics among the Ga ethnic group in colonial and post-colonial Ghana. Her research examines the ways in which disputes over political transitions to power in colonial Accra reveals a dynamic landscape surrounding Ga identity, power, and the past through the idiom of ownership and alienation of land. She argues that litigation over land produced a contentious site for social and political transformation that centered on competing notions of identity and space.
Her next project explores the history of journalistic media as a tool for political discourse about indigenous leadership and authority in colonial and contemporary Ghana. Her research interests include African American history and the dynamics of return, memory and perceptions of homeland in the African Diaspora.
