Ama Biney Explained

Ama Biney
Birth Date:1960s
Nationality:British
Education:University of Birmingham
School of Oriental & African Studies, University of London
Occupation:Historian, journalist, political scientist and academic
Notable Works:The Political and Social Thought of Kwame Nkrumah (2011)

Ama Biney (born 1960s)[1] is a British Ghanaian historian, journalist, political scientist and academic, who for more than 25 years has lectured and taught courses on African and Caribbean history, the History of Black People in Britain, and on international relations in the UK and in Ghana,[2] including at such institutions as Middlesex University, Birkbeck College, University of London, the University of Liverpool,[3] [4] and Webster University Ghana.[5] Among outlets for which she has written are New African magazine, African Studies Quarterly, South African History Online[6] and Pambazuka News, for which she has served as Editor-in-Chief.[7] As an independent Pan-Africanist scholar and activist, she follows Steve Biko's tradition of "writing what she likes."[8] [9]

Biography

Biney's first degree was from the University of Birmingham in African Studies, and she went on to earn a Master's in Government & Politics of West and Southern Africa from the School of Oriental & African Studies in 1988, and subsequently obtained her PhD at the University of London, with her doctoral thesis entitled "Kwame Nkrumah: An Intellectual History."

She is the author of The Political and Social Thought of Kwame Nkrumah, published by Palgrave Macmillan in 2011,[10] and with Adebayo Olukoshi compiled Speaking Truth to Power: Selected Pan-African Postcards of Tajudeen Abdul-Raheem (Pambazuka Press, 2010). She is also a contributor to the 2019 anthology New Daughters of Africa, edited by Margaret Busby.

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: New Daughters of Africa Contents. x. Myriad Editions. 14 May 2022.
  2. Web site: Dr Ama Biney: Pan-Afrikan Leadership: The Political Evolution of Kwame Nkrumah. Pembroke College Oxford. 14 May 2022.
  3. Web site: Dr Ama Biney. Department of History. University of Liverpool. 14 May 2022.
  4. Web site: Capitaine Thomas Sankara + Q&A with Dr Ama Biney. Meeting of Minds. 21 September 2019. 14 May 2022.
  5. Web site: Meet Visiting Faculty, Dr. Ama Biney. Webster University Ghana. YouTube. 15 May 2022.
  6. Web site: Uncovering Josina Machel from obscurity: African women idden in his-tory. Ama. Biney. South African History Online. 3 April 2012. 14 May 2022.
  7. Web site: Ama Biney. Pambazuka News. 14 May 2022.
  8. Book: New Daughters of Africa: An International Anthology of Writing by Women of African Descent. 306. paperback. 2020.
  9. Web site: Conference: Walter Rodney's Legacy and Black Lives Matter today. ROAPE. 22 October 2020. 14 May 2022.
  10. Book: The Political and Social Thought of Kwame Nkrumah. Palgrave Macmillan. Springer Link. 2011. 10.1057/9780230118645 . Biney . Ama . 978-1-349-29513-5 .

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