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Wazi Apoh

PROFESSOR

Verified email at ug.edu.gh Professor, University of Ghana Google Scholar

CollegeCOLLEGE OF HUMANITIES
School / InstituteSCHOOL OF ARTS
DepartmentDEPARTMENT OF ARCHAEOLOGY AND HERITAGE STUDIES
ArchaeologyDevelopment AnthropologyForensic ArchaeologyArchaeology of SlaveryArchaeology of German Colonization
Publications

59

Citations

451

H-index

12

i10-index

16

Publication activity
Publication statistics
Average citations
7.6
Most cited paper
40
First publication year
1900
Latest publication year
2026
Last updated
14 Sep 2026, 09:10
Publications

59 matching publications

PublicationYearJournalThematic areaCitations
“We will not relocate until our ancestors and shrines come with us”: Heritage and conflict management in the Bui Dam Project area, Ghana
W Apoh, K Gavua
2016 Community Archaeology and Heritage in Africa, 204-223, 2016 Humanities 40
Material culture and indigenous spiritism: The Katamansu archaeological “Otutu”(Shrine)
W Apoh, K Gavua
2010 African Archaeological Review 27 (3), 211-235, 2010 Humanities 35
Mainstreaming the Discourse on Restitution and Repatriation within African History, Heritage Studies and Political Science
W Apoh, A Mehler
2020 Contemporary Journal of African Studies (CJAS) 7 (1), 1-16, 2020 Humanities 34
The archaeology of German and British colonial entanglements in Kpando-Ghana
W Apoh
2013 International Journal of Historical Archaeology 17 (2), 351-375, 2013 Humanities 33
Shit, blood, artifacts, and tears: Interrogating visitor perceptions and archaeological residues at Ghana's Cape Coast Castle slave dungeon
W Apoh, J Anquandah, S Amenyo-Xa
2018 Journal of African Diaspora Archaeology and Heritage 7 (2), 105-130, 2018 Humanities 28
Law, land and what lies beneath: exploring mining impacts on customary law and cultural heritage protection in Ghana and Western Australia
W Apoh, K Wissing, W Treasure, J Fardin
2017 African Identities 15 (4), 367-386, 2017 Humanities 28
Germany and its West African colonies:" Excavations" of German colonialism in post-colonial times
W Apoh, B Lundt
2013 LIT Verlag Münster, 2013 Humanities 27
The Akpinis and the echoes of German and British colonial overrule: An archaeological investigation of Kpando, Ghana
WR Apoh
2009 Taylor & Francis Group 44 (2), 278-279, 2009 Humanities 15
Why forget us? Developing the Three-Town enslaved relics as alternative sites of commemoration in southeastern Ghana
W Apoh
2020 Azania: Archaeological Research in Africa 55 (4), 458-474, 2020 Humanities 14
Archaeology and heritage development: Repackaging German/British colonial relics and residues in Kpando, Ghana
W Apoh
2013 Germany and its West African colonies:“Excavations” of German colonialism in …, 2013 Humanities 14
Revelations of Dominance and Resilience: Unearthing the Buried Past of The Akpini, Akan, Germans and British at Kpando, Ghan
W Apoh
2019 Sub-Saharan Publishers, 2019 Humanities 13
Old Buipe (Ghana, Northern Region): Some observations on islamization and urban development at the South-Western margins of the dar al-islam.
D Genequand, WR Apoh
2017 Journal of Islamic Archaeology 4 (2), 139, 2017 Humanities 12
Alternative site conservation strategies in Ghana: the Adome ancient ironworking site
K Gavua, W Apoh
2011 Conservation and management of archaeological sites 13 (2-3), 212-230, 2011 Natural Sciences 12
The restitution debate and return of human remains: implications for bioarchaeological research and cultural ethics in Africa
P Lamptey, W Apoh
2020 Contemporary Journal of African Studies 7 (1), 97-115, 2020 Humanities 11
Traces of German and British settlement in soils of the Volta Region of Ghana
MO Asare, W Apoh, JO Afriyie, J Horak, L Šmejda, M Hejcman
2020 Geoderma Regional 21, e00270, 2020 Humanities 11
The Akpinis and the echoes of German and British colonial overrules: An archaeology of Kpando, Ghana
W Apoh
2008 Unpublished doctoral dissertation). Department of Anthropology, Binghamton …, 2008 Humanities 10
Introduction: Issues of Restitution and Repatriation of Looted and Illegally Acquired African Objects in European Museums
W Apoh, A Mehler
2020 Contemporary Journal of African Studies 7 (1), IX-XII, 2020 Humanities 8
Climate change and the mitigating tool of salvage archaeology
VA Aryee, W Apoh
2018 Legon Journal of the Humanities 29 (2), 81-115, 2018 Humanities 8
Current perspectives in the archaeology of Ghana
J Anquandah, B Kankpeyeng
2015 Sub-Saharan Publishers, 2015 Humanities 8
A study of the Akan and Ewe kente weaving traditions: Implications for the establishment of a kente museum in Ghana
K Atsutse, W Apoh
2014 Current perspectives in the archaeology of Ghana, 222-224, 2014 Humanities 8
Archaeology of Ghana: An introduction
J Anquandah, B Kankpeyeng, W Apoh
2014 Current perspectives in the archaeology of Ghana, 1-17, 2014 Humanities 7
Encounters with development and power: salvage archaeology at the Bui Hydroelectric Dam Project Site in Ghana
K Gavua, W Apoh
2010 unpublished paper presented at the 13th congress of the Pan African …, 2010 Humanities 7
Sankofatization and decolonization: the rapprochement of German museums and government with colonial objects and postcolonialism
W Apoh
2020 Museum Anthropology 43 (1), 29-44, 2020 Humanities 6
‘Nothing about us, without us’: Heritage, development and communities in West Africa
W Apoh, VN Osuagwu
2022 Cultural Heritage Management in Africa, 105-119, 2022 Humanities 5
Using Africa’s past to promote change toward safer alternatives for food packaging in Accra
JK Boateng, EJK Attiogbe, A Stahl, W Apoh, C Boadi, WO Frimpong
2022 Cogent Social Sciences 8 (1), 2137962, 2022 Social Sciences 5