TSJI Research Fellow Thesis Presentation by Dansowaa Adu (TC ‘24)
Dansowaa Adu presented her thesis in May. Drawing deeply from archives and travelogues, Adu explores the reflections of African Americans who traveled to Ghana under Kwame Nkrumah in the 1950s and 1960s. She contrasts these with the experiences of Ghanaians as well as African American tourists during the 2019 “Year of Return” in Ghana. Through this comparison, Adu considers the construction of desires across the African diaspora and how legacies of Pan-Africanism can be disentangled from state cultivated commemorations.
