Dr. Charles Prempeh

Research Fellow


Dept: Centre for Cultural and African Studies
Centre for Cultural and African Studies, KNUST

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Research Areas/Interests

African Studies Religion and Politics Religion and Development  Gender Studies  Qualitative Research  Popular Culture Diaspora an...~more

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Publications

    Books:

     

    1. Charles Prempeh, The Political Economy of Heaven and Earth in Ghana (Bamenda/Cameroon: Langaa RPCIG, 2023).
    2. Charles Prempeh, Gender, Sexuality and Decolonisation in Postcolonial Ghana: A Socio-Philosophical Engagement (Bamenda/Cameroon: Langaa RPCIG, 2023).
    3. Charles Prempeh, Nima-Maamobi in Ghana’s Postcolonial Development: Migration, Islam and Social Transformation (Bamenda/Cameroon: Langaa RPCIG, 2022).

     

     

    Articles and chapters of book

     

    1. 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).

     

    1. 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).

     

    1. 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).

     

    1. 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

     

    1. 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).

     

    1. 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)

     

    1. Charles Prempeh, “Power, trust, and elections,” African Journal of Social Sciences Education 2, 2 (2023): i-vi.

     

    1. Charles Prempeh, "'I am the daughter of a man': Transgressing gender boundaries, redefining chieftaincy in the life of Nana Kofi Abuna V." Sociolinguistic Studies17 (2023): 229-251.

     

    1. Charles Prempeh, “Covid-19 and the philosophy of education: Recuperating Africa’s triple heritage,” Millah: Journal of Religious Studies, 22, 1 (2023): 95-126.

     

    1. Charles Prempeh, “Countries have locked down, but heaven’s gate is still open,” InNancy 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).

     

    1. 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).

     

    1. 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).

     

    1. 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.

     

    1. 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): 1-21.

     

    1. Charles Prempeh, “Re-imagining wasatiyyah as a socio-theological mediation of youth anger in Accra, Ghana,” Unisia, 40, 1 (2022): 103-128.

     

    1. 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.

     

    1. 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.

     

    1. 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.

     

    1. 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.

     

    1. 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.

     

    1. 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.

     

    1. 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), pp. 137-157.

     

    1. Charles Prempeh, “Social media and peace in Ghana” The Peace Journalist, October 2021: 18-19.

     

    1. Charles Prempeh, “Dreadlocks in the Church of Pentecost: Rasta or Rastafarians?” PentecoStudies, 20.1 (2021), 36-55.

     

    1. 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), pp. 38-43
    2. Charles Prempeh, “From offline to online imagined community: Recuperating Asante culture and history for development in Ghana” Question, Issue 06 (2021), pp. 36-44.

     

    1. 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, pp. 69-118.
    1. 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), pp. 112-127.

     

    1. 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, pp. 281-300.
    2. Charles Prempeh, “Religion and the state in an episodic moment of COVID-19 in Ghana”, Social Sciences & Humanities Open, Vol. 4, Issue 1 (2021), pp. 1-8.
    3. 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), pp. 75-87.
    4. 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 (Feb. 2020), pp. 39-54.
    5. Charles Prempeh (Book Review), “Telephone conversations: A history of telecommunication Economics and MTN in Ghana,” African and Asian Studies Vol. 19 (2020), pp. 316-318.
    6. 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 (Feb. 2020), pp. 23-40.
    7. Agana-Nsiire Agana and Charles Prempeh, “Defiling the Church: The Impact of Mmusuo in Akan Conception,’ Transformation, Vol. 1 (2019), pp. 3-17.
    8. 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), pp. 20-47.
    9. 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, pp. 219-238.
    10. 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), pp. 4-18.

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