Published
- “‘The World of Funky Wanky Folks’: A Timeline of 1970s Ghanaian Pop Music,” Ghana Studies 27 (2024): 125-131. Link
- “Black Power, Raw Soul, and Race in Ghana.” African Studies Review 66, no. 4 (December 2023): 988-1012. Link
Winner of 2024 Outstanding Article Prize from the Association for the Study of the Worldwide African Diaspora. - “Performing Ghana: The Politics of Being a Black Woman on the Stage, 1966-1979.” African and Black Diaspora: An International Journal 12, no. 1 (2019 [online, 2017]): 32-48. Link
- “Building ‘A Home Away from Home:’ Musical Spaces and Diasporic ‘Feedback’ from London to Accra, 1950s-1980s.” Ghana Studies 20 (2017): 20-44. Link
In progress
- “Living Pan-Africanism: Caribbean Contributions to Ghana’s Education, Health, and Entertainment Sectors.” InTides of Exchange: Caribbean Interactions and Impacts on Africa’s Development, edited by Glenford Howe, Edward Lama Wonkeryor, Tara Inniss, and Henderson Carter, to be submitted to Ian Randle Publishers. Accepted book chapter.
- “New Accra in New England: A History of Migration and Ghanaian Foodways in Worcester.” Article in progress.
- “Jazz in Ghana.” In The Encyclopedia of Popular Music of the World, Vol. XIV. Bloomsbury Academic. Chapter in progress.
- “Hiroshima and Reggane: Anti-Nuclear Activism and African-Asian-Caribbean Strategy.” Book project in progress.
Alison Okuda, Ph.D. 