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Edem Adotey

ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR

Verified email at ug.edu.gh Associate Professor of African History, Institute of African Studies, University of Ghana Google Scholar

CollegeCOLLEGE OF HUMANITIES
School / InstituteINSTITUTE OF AFRICAN STUDIES
DepartmentINSTITUTE OF AFRICAN STUDIES SECRETARIAT
borderlandschieftaincycitizenshipnationalismpan-Africanism
Publications

20

Citations

137

H-index

7

i10-index

6

Publication activity
Publication statistics
Average citations
6.9
Most cited paper
30
First publication year
2013
Latest publication year
2026
Last updated
14 Sep 2026, 07:56
Publications

20 matching publications

PublicationYearJournalThematic areaCitations
An imaginary line? Decolonisation, bordering and borderscapes on the Ghana–Togo border
E Adotey
2021 Third World Quarterly 42 (5), 1069-1086, 2021 Multidisciplinary / Unclassified 30
Parallel or dependent? The state, chieftaincy and institutions of governance in Ghana
E Adotey
2019 African Affairs 118 (473), 628-645, 2019 Social Sciences 29
‘International chiefs’: chieftaincy, rituals and the reproduction of transborder Ewe ethnic communities on the Ghana–Togo boundary
E Adotey
2018 Africa 88 (3), 560-578, 2018 Multidisciplinary / Unclassified 17
Where is my name?–Contemporary funeral posters as an arena of contestation and (re) negotiation of chiefly relations among the Ewe of Ghana and Togo
E Adotey
2018 History in Africa 45, 59-69, 2018 Humanities 12
“Operation Eagle Eye”: Border Citizenship and Cross-border Voting in Ghana’s Fourth Republic
E Adotey
2020 Journal of Borderlands Studies, 2020 Multidisciplinary / Unclassified 11
A Matter of Apostrophe? Founder’s Day, Founders’ Day, and Holiday Politics in Contemporary Ghana
E Adotey
2019 Journal of West African History 5 (2), 113-140, 2019 Social Sciences 11
“Oil palm branch to oil palm branch”: festivals, borders, and trans-border Ewe ethnic identities on the Ghana–Togo border
E Adotey, S Ntewusu
2025 Journal of Borderlands Studies 40 (5), 1235-1254, 2025 Multidisciplinary / Unclassified 7
Transnational citizenship on the borderlands: Towards making (non) sense of national borders in Africa
E Adotey
2023 Contemporary Journal of African Studies 10 (2), 74-100, 2023 Multidisciplinary / Unclassified 6
The Paradox of Colonialism—The German Colonial Project, Pan‐Ewe‐Identity and Consciousness in Togo, 1884–1914
E Adotey
2013 Germany and its West African Colonies:“Excavations” of German Colonialism in …, 2013 Multidisciplinary / Unclassified 6
‘9th May 2017 is OUR DAY’: The Homeland Study Group Foundation and contested national imaginaries in postindependence Ghana
E Adotey
2022 Nations and Nationalism, 2022 Multidisciplinary / Unclassified 3
Anatomy of a Border: Contradictory Discourses on Othering and Mobilities on the Ghana–Togo Border?
E Adotey
2025 Africa Spectrum 60 (2), 266-286, 2025 Multidisciplinary / Unclassified 2
Decolonising governance: The state and chieftaincy conflicts on the Ghana-Togo Borderlands
E Adotey
2021 The Africa Governance Papers 1 (1), 6-27, 2021 Social Sciences 2
Multiplicity and simultaneity in ethnographic research: Exploring the use of drones in Ghana
E Adotey
2021 African Affairs 120 (480), 445-459, 2021 Multidisciplinary / Unclassified 1
Border Festivals in Africa
E Adotey
2026 Routledge Handbook of African Borderlands, 367-376, 2026 Multidisciplinary / Unclassified 0
Aɖaʋatram (Madness Has Led Me Astray): Ritual Archives and Ewe Identities on the Ghana–Togo Borderlands
E Adotey
2025 History in Africa 52, 25-37, 2025 Humanities 0
An Institute of Residual Studies? Nkrumah and the “Afroepistemic” Origins of the Institute of African Studies, University of Ghana
E Adotey
2024 The Journal of African History 65 (3), 398-414, 2024 Humanities 0
Institutions and challenges to development:" An Analysis of Economic Growth, Governance, and Development in Sub-Saharan Africa"
Y Sangare, E Adotey
2024 Working Papers CIE, 2024 Social Sciences 0
Academic Research in the Era of COVID-19: Insights from an African Higher Education Institution
M Frehivvot, IA Addo, E Adotey
2023 Social Sciences 0
Revisiting The 1958 All-African People’s Conference: The Unfinished Business Of Liberation And Transformation
D Tsikata, M Frehiwot, E Adotey
2023 Contemporary Journal of African Studies 10 (2), vii-xii, 2023 Social Sciences 0
Kwame Nkrumah: Visions of Liberation: by Jeffrey S. Ahlman, Athens, Ohio University Press, 2021, 218 pp.
E Adotey
2022 Canadian Journal of African Studies/Revue canadienne des études africaines …, 2022 Multidisciplinary / Unclassified 0