Former Kellogg International Scholar Bright Gyamfi '16, an assistant professor of history at University of California, San Diego, has received a National Endowment for the Humanities Grant.
The award for his project, titled “Embers of Pan-Africanism: Nkrumahist Intellectuals and Decolonization, 1960–1980,” will support research and writing leading to a book on radical Ghanaian intellectuals who left their country after 1966, spreading left-leaning ideologies in Africa, the United States, Latin America, and the Caribbean.
Gyamfi studies at the intersection of West African and African Diaspora intellectual history, nationalism, Pan-Africanism, Black internationalism, and economic development, writing on African intellectuals who worked to transform and radicalize the study of Africa in academic and intellectual centers around the Atlantic. A former Presidential Fellow at Northwestern University, he is an inductee in the was inducted into the Edward A. Bouchet Society. Gyamfi has received research fellowships and grants from the Social Science Research Council, the Fulbright-IIE, the Black Studies Project, the US Department of State, the University of Oxford, and the University of California, among others. He holds a PhD from Northwestern University.