#  Emmanuel K. Akyeampong 

Faculty Associate. 

Ellen Gurney Professor of History and of African and African American Studies, Departments of History and of African and African American Studies, Harvard University.

 

 

 



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 email <akyeamp@fas.harvard.edu> 

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**Research interests:** West African history; Islam in sub-Saharan Africa; comparative slavery; social history of alcohol; ecology; social history; and cultural history.



 

 

 





 

 

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