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Pan African Studies Program
 Director: Baffour K. Takyi, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Sociology
Ph.D., Sociology, State University of New York at Albany. 1993
M.A., Sociology, State University of New York at Albany. 1986
B.A. (Honors), Sociology, The University of Ghana, Legon, Accra, Ghana, 1978
Research Areas:
Dr. Takyi's research interests include studies on reproductive related behavior, including HIV/AIDS in Africa, transformations in African families, and recent African immigrants in the US. His published works have appeared in such journals as Journal of Marriage and the Family, Social Science and Medicine, Journal of Comparative Family, Sociological Focus, Family Perspectives, Ethnic and Racial Studies, Western Journal of Black Studies, International Journal of Sociology of the Family, and Sociology of Religion. In addition, he has contributed chapters to several edited volumes on Family and Immigration and is co-editor on two forthcoming books on African families (Praeger) and The Neo-Diaspora: Africans in America (Lexington Books/Rowman and Littlefield).
"When you control a man's thinking you do not have to worry about his actions. History shows that it does not matter who is in power--those who have not learned to do for themselves and have to depend solely on others never obtain any more rights or privileges in the end than they had in the beginning"
--Carter G. Woodson
The contemporary Black Studies movement came in the wake of the Civil Rights Movement. On college campuses with predominantly white student bodies, the protest and demands of African-American students for a relevant education initiated the drive. In the 1970s, The University of Akron instituted the Afro-American Studies Program. The program was designed to give students a familiarity with the history, heritage and culture of African-American student.
In 1996, the Afro-American Studies Program changed its name to Pan-African Studies. The Greek word, "Pan," usually followed by a hyphen, means all, collective, ever embracing, common to all.The Univerisity's Pan-African Studies Program examines the history and culture of people of African descent.
As an interdisciplinary field, Pan-African Studies helps students to gain a better understanding of the African-American experience while proving comparable experiences of others who were a part of the African Diaspora. It studies them from a social, historical, psychological and cultural context.
Dr. Baffour K. Takyi
Director, Pan African Studies
CAS Room 126
Akron, OH 44325-1805
Phone: 330-972-8427
Fax: 330-972-5379
E-Mail:
pasp@uakron.edu
To get listed on the Pan African Studies Email list serv please contact:
pasp@uakron.edu
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Dyuti Trivedi
Research Assistant |
 IN MEMORY:
Dr. Kwadwo Konadu Agyemang
Our colleague, Kwadwo Konadu Agyemang, passed away on Friday, July 27, 2007 after an extended illness. He was 52 years old. He confronted his illness with the same indefatigable smile and positive spirit that he shared with everyone he met and who knew him during the course of his life. His death leaves an immense void in our department and in our hearts. He was a wonderful human being who gave so much of himself to so many people.
May Kwadwo's spirit of generosity and good-will, and that almost constant beaming smile, live on among us all who knew him.
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