Publications
Books
1. 2026 Charles Prempeh, Making of Ghana: A History of West Africa Secondary School (WASS), 1946—2026 (Accra/Ghana: Woeli Publishing Services, 2026)
2. 2024 Charles Prempeh, Youth Activism in Modern Politics in Ghana (Accra/Ghana: Woeli Publishing Services, 2024).
3. 2023 Charles Prempeh, The Political Economy of Heaven and Earth in Ghana (Bamenda/Cameroon: Langaa RPCIG, 2023).
4. 2023 Charles Prempeh, Gender, Sexuality and Decolonisation in Postcolonial Ghana: A Socio-Philosophical Engagement (Bamenda/Cameroon: Langaa RPCIG, 2023).
5. 2022 Charles Prempeh, Nima-Maamobi in Ghana’s Postcolonial Development: Migration, Islam and Social Transformation (Bamenda/Cameroon: Langaa RPCIG, 2022).
Articles
6. 2026 Charles Prempeh and Stephen Owoahene-Acheapong, “Highly Religious Catholic Youths in the (Post)-Secular World: A Sociocultural Contextual Analysis of Ghanaian Catholics in Ghana and England,” Journal of Religion in Africa, 1 (2026): 1-20.
7. 2026 Charles Prempeh, “Decentralised Presidentialism and the ‘Independence’ of the Judiciary in Ghana’s Public Governance,” ASC-TUFS Working Papers, 6 (2026): 43-60.
8. 2026 Charles Prempeh, “?manpanin, ?manhene, and the Limit of Presidentialism in Ghana’s Politics: A Reflection,” The Journal of Oriental Studies (2026): 1-24.
9. 2025 Prempeh, Charles. “‘I” love ‘You’: Issues of love and domestic abuse in Accra, Ghana,” Journal of Science and Technology, 43, 1 (2025): 21-35. https://dx.doi.org/10.431/just.v43i1.2.
10. 2025 Charles Prempeh and Nahaja Adam, “‘Who is Your daddy?’ DNA Paternity Misattribution and the Akan Matrilineal Puzzle: Lessons for Law and Policy,” KNUST Law Journal, 12 (2025): 239-254.
11. 2025 Charles Prempeh, “Back to whose ‘Eden’?: Social evolution of Akan marriage and Pentecostal enforcement of pre-nuptial ethical boundaries,” African Journal of Social Sciences Education (Special Edition) (2025): 41-68. https://journals.uew.edu.gh/index.php/ajsse/article/view/408.
12. 2024 Charles Prempeh, ““God Would Himself Raise Up a Nation out of Africa”: God’s Covenant, The Church of Pentecost and Ghana’s Public Sphere.” Pentecost Journal of Theology and Mission 5, no. 1 (2024): 17-40. pentvars.edu.gh.
13. 2024 Prempeh, C. (2024). The USA’s Ideological Globalism and Ghana’s Religious Frontier Since the 21st Unisia, 42(1): 169-190.https://doi.org/10.20885/unisia.vol42.iss1.art7.
14. 2023 Charles Prempeh, “‘I will marry from home’: Transnational spousal choices among second-generation Ghanaian migrants in England, United Kingdom,” Ghana Journal of Sociology & Anthropology (GJSA), 8 (2023): 87-110. https://www.ug.edu.gh/sociology/journals.
15. 2023 Charles Prempeh, “Power, trust, and elections,” African Journal of Social Sciences Education 2, 2 (2023): i-vi.
16. 2023 Charles Prempeh, “’I am the daughter of a man’: Transgressing gender boundaries, redefining chieftaincy in the life of Nana Kofi Abuna V.” Sociolinguistic Studies 17 (2023): 229-251 https://doi.org/10.1558/sols.24052.
17. 2023 Charles Prempeh, “Covid-19 and the philosophy of education: Recuperating Africa’s triple heritage,” Millah: Journal of Religious Studies, 22, 1 (2023): 95-126. https://doi.org/10.20885/millah.vol22.iss1.art4.
18. 2022 Agana-Nsiire Agana and Charles Prempeh, “Of farms, legends, and fools: Re-engaging Ghana’s development narrative through social media,” Media, Culture & Society (2022): 1-17. https://doi.org/10.1177/01634437221111918.
19. 2022 Charles Prempeh, “Re-imagining wasatiyyah as a socio-theological mediation of youth anger in Accra, Ghana,” Unisia, 40, 1 (2022): 103-128. https://doi.org/10.20885/unisia.vol40.iss1.art5.
20. 2022 Charles Prempeh, “Decolonising African divine episteme: A critical analysis of the Akan divine name of God (Twereduampon Kwame),” Journal of Religion in Africa 52 (2022): 269-291. https://doi.org/10.1163/15700666-12340231.
21. 2022 Charles Prempeh, ‘“Food before pressure”: Food and food culture in Muslim inner-city in Maamobi-Accra since the 1980s,’ African Journal of Social Sciences Education, 2, 1 (2022): 1-https://journals.uew.edu.gh/index.php/ajsse/article/view/78.
22. 2022 Charles Prempeh, “‘Hijab is my identity’: Beyond the politics of the veil: The appropriations of the veil in an inner-Muslim area of Accra (Ghana) since 1980s”, Journal of Africana Religions, 10, 1 (2022): 20-46.https://doi.org/10.5325/jafrireli.10.1.0020.
23. 2022 Charles Prempeh, “Polishing the pearls of indigenous knowledge for inclusive social education in Ghana”, Social Sciences & Humanities Open, 5 (2022): 1-9; https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ssaho.2022.100248.
24. 2021 Stephen Owoahene-Acheampong and Charles Prempeh, “Socio-legal implications of Muslims-Christian conjugal relations in contemporary Zongo communities in Accra,” SN Social Sciences 1:283 (2021): 1-16. https://doi.org/10.1007/s43545-021-00293-5.
25. 2021 Charles Prempeh, “Religious innovations of chieftaincy in Ghana: Pentecostal Christianity and the complex persistence and transformation of Akan chieftaincy” Religion Compass, (2021): 1-13, DOI: 10.1111/rec3.12426.
26. 2021 Charles Prempeh, “Social media and peace in Ghana” The Peace Journalist, October 2021: 18-19.
27. 2021 Charles Prempeh, “Dreadlocks in the Church of Pentecost: Rasta or Rastafarians?” PentecoStudies, 20.1 (2021): 36-55. https://doi.org/10.1163/2589-3807_EGPO_COM_033762.
28. 2021 Charles Prempeh, “Religion, Social Media and the Discourse on Prisons: An Analysis of the Responses to the Church of Pentecost (CoP) Prison Project in Ghana”, Prison Service Journal 256 (2021): 38-43. https://www.crimeandjustice.org.uk.
29. 2021 Charles Prempeh, “From offline to online imagined community: Recuperating Asante culture and history for development in Ghana” Question, Issue 06 (2021), pp. 36-44. DOI: 10.52715/GVVN7324.
30. 2021 Charles Prempeh, “Philosophies of romantic love and rumours of conjugal relations at the University of Cape Coast (2004-2009). A socio-cultural analysis of students’ popular culture”, The Journal of African Youth Literature, Issue 04 (2021): 112-127.
31. 2021 Charles Prempeh, “Religion and the state in an episodic moment of COVID-19 in Ghana”, Social Sciences & Humanities Open, Vol. 4, Issue 1 (2021): 1-8.https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ssaho.2021.100141.
32. 2020 Charles Prempeh, “Secularism, interfaith marriages and reengagement with the study of Islam-Christian relations in Ghana,” Journal of Liberal Arts and Humanities (JLAH), Vol. 1, No. 2 (2020): 39-54. https://jlahnet.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/4.pdf
33. 2020 Stephen Owoahene-Acheampong and Charles Prempeh, “Contemporary Zongo communities in Accra interfaith marriages: The case of Muslims and Christians in Accra,” African Studies Quarterly, Vol. 19, Issue 1 (2020): 23-40. http://www.africa.ufl.edu/asq/v19/v19i1a2.pdf.
34. 2019 Agana-Nsiire Agana and Charles Prempeh, “Defiling the Church: The Impact of Mmusuo in Akan Conception,” Transformation, Vol. 1 (2019): 3-17. https://doi.org/10.1177/0265378819874370.
35. 2019 Charles Prempeh “Before Allah created human beings, there was a marijuana tree: Marijuana and culture in the “Ghettoes” of Maamobi Zongo community in Accra” Abibisem: Journal of African culture and civilization, Vol. 8 (2019): 20-47.https://doi.org/10.47963/ajacc.v8i.848.
36. 2016 Charles Prempeh “Peeping into the sacralisation of marijuana in urban slums: A study of Muslim youth in Maamobi, Ghana,” Journal for the study of Religions of Africa and its Diaspora,’ Vol. 2, No.1 (2016): 4-18. https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5898-7886.
Book Chapters
37. 2025 Charles Prempeh and Gladys Nyarko Ansah. “Religious Songs and Nation-Building in Postcolonial Ghana,” in Babacar M’Baye, Fallou Ngom, Khadimou Rassoul Thiam, and Alioune Willane (eds.), Music as a cultural text: Performance traditions in West Africa and its diaspora, 55-83 (Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan, 2025).
38. 2025 Charles Prempeh. Human Ontological Dignity, Incompleteness, and the Possibilities of Optimism,” in Francis B. Nyamnjoh (ed), Navigating Hope: Cultivating Inclusive Optimism in a Complex World, 81-108 (Bamenda/Cameroon: Langaa Research & Publishing Common Initiative Group, 2025)
39. 2025 Charles Prempeh, “Linguistic Politics and Nation-Building in Contemporary Ghana: Re-engaging the Debate on African Literary Writings,” in Esther Mavengano and Isaac Mhute (eds.), Shifting Sociolinguistic Terrains in Postcolonial Anglophone African Literary Writings, 245-271 (Cham/Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan, 2025).
40. 2024 Charles Prempeh, “Rejuvenation of a Denomination: The Experience of the Church of Pentecost, Ghana,” in Wonsuk Ma, and Opoku Onyinah, and Rebeka Bled (eds.), Generation & the Holy Spirit: Building a Spirit-empowered future, 201-218 (Tulsa, Oklahoma: Oral Roberts University, 2024).
41. 2024 Charles Prempeh, “Centres and peripheries in literatures: Interrogating the causes and the impact of Western hegemonic canonism in Ghana.” In Hassan Mbiydzenyuy Yosibom and Bill F. Ndi (eds). Centres and peripheries in literatures, 41-76 (Langaa RPCIG, 2024).
42. 2024 Charles Prempeh, “Media, language and cultural politics in contemporary Accra, Ghana,” In Isaac Mhute and Esther Mavengano (eds), Political communication in sub-Saharan Africa, Vol. II, 157-174 (Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2024).
43. 2024 Charles Prempeh and Esther Mavengano, “Invectives of language in Ghanaian and Zimbabwean political discourse: Participatory politics and social media.” In Isaac Mhute and Esther Mavengano (eds), Political communication in Sub-Saharan Africa, Vol. I, Media and democracy, 99-120 (Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2024).
44. 2024 Charles Prempeh, “Missions and Contemporary African Rulers.” In Andrew Eugene Barnes and Toyin Falola (eds), The Palgrave Handbook of Christianity in Africa from Apostolic Times to the Present, pp. 625-644 (Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2024).
45. 2024 Charles Prempeh, “Political and economic lives in the Covid-19 era,” In Opoku Onyinah and Alfred Koduah (eds), Responding to the uninvited visitor: Covid-19 pandemic and the lessons it has taught us, 167-202 (Bamenda/Cameroon: Langaa Research & Publishing CIG, 2024).
46. 2024 Charles Prempeh, “‘We will fish out MP mole and punish the person’: Language, politics, and culture of deceit in Ghana’s politics,” In Esther Mavengano and Isaac Mhute (eds), Sub-Sharan political cultures of deceit in language, literature and media, Vol. II, 141-167 (Cham/Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan, 2023).
47. 2023 Charles Prempeh, “A behavioural approach to sustainable neighbourhoods: A philosophical construction of a friendly neighbourhood,” In Nestor Asiamah, Hafiz T.A. Khan, Pablo Villalobos Dintrans, Mohammad Javad Koohsari, Emmanuel Mogaji, Edgar Ramos Viera, Ruth Lowry, and Henry Kofi Mensah (eds.), Sustainable neighbourhoods for ageing in place, 141-160 (Cham/Switzerland: Springer, 2023).
48. 2023 Charles Prempeh, “Digital Cultures, Voice, and (New) Forms of Civic Participation in Ghana.” In Duncan Omanga, Admire Mare and Pamela Mainye (eds.), Digital Technologies, Elections and Campaigns in Africa, pp. 227-244 (London: Routledge, 2023).
49. 2023 Charles Prempeh, “Countries have locked down, but heaven’s gate is still open,” In Nancy Henaku, G. Edzordzi Agbozo and Mark Nartey (eds.), Communicative Perspectives on COVID-19 in Ghana: At the Intersection of Culture, Science, Religion and Politics, 40-54 (New York: Routledge, 2023).
50. 2022 Charles Prempeh, “Daring to be different in an imagined Muslim ummah in Ghana: A critical reflection of a non-conformist Muslim woman,” In Aminkeng A. Alemanji, Clara Marlijn Meijer, Martins Kwazema and Francis Ethelbert Kwabena Benyah (eds), Contemporary discourses in social exclusion, 119-142 (Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan, 2022).
51. 2022 Charles Prempeh, “Balancing religious freedoms and the right of education of minorities in Ghana: A focus on access to public senior high schools by Rastafarians,” In Maame Efua Adadzi-Koom, Micchael Addaney and Lydia A. Nkansah, Democratic governance, law, and development in Africa: Pragmatism, experiments, and prospects, 193-222. Cham/Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan, 2022).
52. 2022 Charles Prempeh, “Digitalization and migration: A reflection on the armed conflict in Ukraine,” In Amanda Shriwise (ed), The pros and cons of digitalization, Global Social Policy, 22, 3 (2022): 604-630.
53. 2021 Charles Prempeh, “African agency, human rights and issues of homosexuality: Biden and Africa” In Bob Wekesa (ed.) Africa’s Policy Towards the US: The Biden Era, Johannesburg: African Centre for the Study of the United States (University of the Witwatersrand, 2021): 137-157.
54. 2021 Charles Prempeh, “Identity formation in a Muslim inner-city of Accra, Ghana since the 1980s”, In Kwabena Akurang-Parry & Fritz Biveridge (Eds.), The Contributions of Robert Addo-Fening to the History and Culture of Ghana: A Festschrift (Accra: Digibooks Publishers Ghana Ltd., 2021): 69-118.
55. 2021 Charles Prempeh and Lydia Amoah, “Secular governmentality and the court of the Asante Ahemaa in 21st century: An ethnographic account of Ejisu and Juaben traditional areas”. In Edmund Abaka & Kwame Osei Kwarteng (Eds.), The Asante World (London/New York: Routledge, 2021): 281-300.
56. 2020 Charles Prempeh, “Religious reforms and notions of gender in Pentecostal Christianity: A case of the Church of Pentecost”. In Nimi Wariboko & Adeshina Afolayan (Eds.), African Pentecostalism and World Christianity: Essays in Honour of J. Kwabena Asamoah-Gyadu (Eugene: Pickwick Publications, 2020): 75-87.
57. 2017 De-Valera Botchway & Charles Prempeh, ‘“Herb is for the Healing of the Nation!” – Marijuana as a consumable vegetable among Muslim youth in the ghettoes of Maamobi in Accra, Ghana’ In Kima Cargil (Ed.), Food Cult: How Fads, Dogma, and Doctrine Influence Diet (New York: Rowman and Littlefield, 2017): 219-238.
Book Reviews
58. Charles Prempeh, “Christian Nationalism and Democracy in Ghana, written by Jeffrey Haynes.” Religion and Development1, no. aop (2026): 1-4.
59. 2024 Onyinah Opoku and Charles Prempeh (Book Review), “The Recuperation of the Primordial Vision of Christian Education”, written by Amos Yong and Dale M. Coulter, Pneuma 46 (2024) 367-385.