Edmund Abaka is Associate Professor of History at the University of Miami and a documentary-style photographer whose works has been exhibited in museums and libraries in Miami and South Florida. From 2016-2018, he was a Fulbright Scholar at the University of Cape Coast, Ghana. His research interests include West Africa Economic and Social History, Slavery and Emancipation and Sites of Historical Memory in parts of Africa and the African Diaspora.

He is the author of works on kola and kola nut production and trade in West Africa; Ghana Young Pioneers; African Youth; Slave Forts, Castles and Dungeons of Ghana and the Writings of Du Bois on Africa. These include, among others, Kola is God’s Gift: Agricultural Production, Export Initiatives & the Kola Industry of Asante and the Gold Coast c. 1820-1950 (2005); House of Slaves and ‘Door of No Return”: Gold Coast/Ghana Slave Forts, Castles and Dungeons and the Atlantic Slave Trade (2012); Du Bois on Africa [with Eugene Provenzo Jr.] 2012; The Asante World (with Kwame Osei Kwarteng (2021); Africa and the Second World War (2022).

He is presently working on: Migration, Identity and Citizenship: The Hausa Diaspora in Asante and the Gold Coast, 1820-2020; Slavery, Remembrance and Historical Memory: A Biography of Elmina Slave Castle and Dungeons;In the Shadow of Slavery: The Minor Slave Forts and Dungeons of the Gold Coast, among others.