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Meet Adu Boahen, the historian who rescued West Africa’s historical narrative from white scholars

Ghanaian politician, Prof. Albert Adu Boahen, might have failed in his bid to wrestle power from then-leader Jerry John Rawlings in the 1992 Ghanaian presidential election while representing the main opposition New Patriotic Party. But as an academic and historian who researched deeply and shed light on Africa and West Africa’s contribution to civilization, Boahen’s legacy is enduring. Boahen was ...

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