Publications
REFEREED ARTICLES, BOOKS AND BOOK CHAPTERS
1. Adu-Gyamfi, S., & Tomdi, L. (2023). Non-Communicable Diseases (NCDs) and Epidemic Diseases Vulnerabilities in Ghana: A Reflection on the Influenza Epidemic of 1918-1920. Thesis, 12(1), 101-122.
2. Adu-Gyamfi, S., Adjaottor, J., & Owusu, D. S. (2023). Cholera Discourse Among the Asante of Ghana Since the Colonial Period: Continuities and Discontinuities in Ayigya Zongo. The Australasian Review of African Studies, 44(1), 64-83.
3. Adu-Gyamfi, S., Asiamah, P., & Tomdi, L. (2023). Cerebrospinal Meningitis in the Colonial History of the Asante of Ghana. Philosophy, Social and Human Disciplines, 23(1), 35-50.
4. Adu-Gyamfi, S., & Anderson, E. (2022). African Traditional Healing and Biomedicine: A Reconstruction of Colonial and Post-independence Health-Care History under Kwame Nkrumah, 1951-66. Journal of West African History, 8(1), 87-118.
5. Adu-Gyamfi, S. (2022). Medical Tourism in Ghana: A History. Kaleidoscope History: Journal on the History of Culture, Science and Medicine. 12(25), 1-26.
6. Gyasi, R. M., Adjakloe, Y. D. A., Siaw, L. P., James, P. B., Amoah, P. A., Abass, K., Adu-Gyamfi, S., Philips, D. R. (2022). The Effect-Modification of Physical Activity on the Association of Pain with Impaired Physical Function in Aging Adults. Experimental Gereontology, 163, 111791.
7. Adu-Gyamfi, S., Donkoh, W. J., & Awuah, D. B. (2021). Epidemiology and Local Responses to Diseases in Asante: A Focus on Kumase Since the Beginning of the Twentieth Century. The Asante World. 301-320.
8. Gyasi, RM., Adu-Gyamfi, S., Obeng, B., Asamoah, E., Kisiangani, I., Ochieng, V., and Appiah, K (2021). Association between Physical Activity Participation and Perceived Social Isolation at Older Ages: Do Social Participation, Age and Sex Differences Matter? Archives of Gerontology and Geriatrics 96: 1-8.
9. Adu-Gyamfi, S., Tomdi, L., & Amakye-Boateng, K. (2020). Discourse on Non-Communicable Diseases Interventions in Ghana (1990-2018). Jobari, 26(2): 17-26.
10. Adu-Gyamfi, S., Asiamah, P., Darkwa, B. D., & Tomdi, L. Public Health Policies in the Akyem Abuakwa of Ghana (1850-1957). Ethnologia Actualis, 20(2), 129-157.
11. Adu-Gyamfi, S., Kuusaana, M. M., Darkwa, B. D., & Tomdi, L. (2020). The Changing Landscape of Mission Medicine and Hospitals in Sub-Saharan Africa. Christian Journal for Global Health, 7(5), 65-81.
12. Yevu, I., Benya, E., Adu- Gyamfi, S., Darkwa, B. D., & Tomdi, L. (2020). Evaluation of the Management Practices in the Healthcare Delivery System of Ghana: A Case Study of KNUST Hospital, Kumasi. International Journal of Public Health and Health Sciences. 2(2): 1-18.
13. Adu-Gyamfi, S., Tomdi, L., Nimoh, M., & Dompreh, B. D. (2020). Evolutionary Study of Chronic Non-Communicable Diseases Policy as Healthcare Intervention in Ghana (2000-2019). Int J Body Mind Culture. 6(4), 185-200.
14. Gyasi, R. M., Abass, K., & Adu-Gyamfi, S. (2020). How Do Lifestyle Choices Affect the Link Between Living Alone and Psychological Distress in Older Age? Results from the AgeHeaPsyWel-HeaSeeB Study. BMC Public Health, 20, 1-9.
15. Adu-Gyamfi, S., & Verghese, R. (2019). Primary Health Care Revisited: A review of the October 2018 Contact Issue. Christian Journal for Global Health, 6(1), 108-116.
16. Adu-Gyamfi, S., Gyasi, R. M., Awuah, D. B., Oware, R., & Ampadu, S. K. (2019). Western Medicine in a Community in Ghana: A Social Change Review. Social Change Review, 17(1), 61-89.
17. Adu-Gyamfi, S., & Oware, R. (2019). Economy and Health in the Gold Coast, 1902-1957. African Economic History, 47(2), 12-44.
18. Adu-Gyamfi, S. (2019). Ebola Haemorrhagic Fever in Africa: A Necessary Highlight. International Journal of Public Health, 8(1), 1-13.
19. Adu-Gyamfi, S., Gyasi, R. M., & Adu-Agyeman, G. (2019). Skin Bleaching Narratives Responses from Women Bleaches and Stakeholders in Ghana (1950s-2015). Ethnologia Actualis, 18(2), 100-117.
20. Adu-Gyamfi, S. (2019). From Present African Health Care Systems to the Future: Health Financing in Ghana and Rwanda. In Mazibuko Z. (ed), Epidemics and the Health of African Nations. Johannesburg: Mapungubwe Institute for Strategic Reflections: 316-349.
21. Adu-Gyamfi, S., Awuah, D B and Amakye-Boateng, K. (2019). The Economic History of Health Non-Governmental Organizations in Ghana. Africa Review of Economics and Finance (AREF), 11(2): 338-364.
22. Adu-Gyamfi, S. (2018). Religion and Sanitation in a City in Ghana: A Conundrum? Bhatter College Journal of Multidisciplinary Studies, 8.1. 39-61.
23. Adu-Gyamfi, S. (2018). Public Health Narratives on the Asante People of Ghana. Available at SSRN 2975285.
24. Adu-Gyamfi, S., Gyasi, R. M., Ampadu, S. K., & Oware, R. (2018). Neo-Medical Practice and Disease Control in Ghana: Perspectives on Atiwa District (1960-2010). Romanian Journal of Sociological Studies, 2.
25. Adu-Gyamfi, S., & Marfo, C. (2018). Preventive Healthcare Tapestry: Ensuring A Resonance. Art Human Open Acc J 2(6), 416-420.
26. Adu-Gyamfi, S., and Oware, R. (2018). Wesleyan Mission Medicine in Asante (1901-2000). Journal of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences Studies: 335-376.
27. Adu-Gyamfi, S. (2017). Book Review: Rhine, Kathryne A. (2016). The Unseen Things: Women, Secrecy, and HIV in Northern Nigeria. Indiana University Press. African Studies Quarterly 17(3).
28. Adu-Gyamfi, S., Dramani, A., Amakye-Boateng, K., & Akomeah, S. (2017). Public Health: Socio-Political History of a People. Journal of Arts and Humanities. 6(8), 12-33.
29. Adu-Gyamfi, S., Brenya, E., & Egyir, P. N. (2017). Public Health in Colonial and Post-Colonial Ghana: Lesson-Drawing for the Twenty-First Century. Studies in Arts and Humanities, 3(1): 1-21.
30. Adu-Gyamfi, S., Brenya, E., & Adjei, G. N. (2017). Maternal and Infant Health Section of the Demographic and Health Survey Report of Ghana. Journal of Humanity, 5(1), 98-105.
31. Adu-Gyamfi, S., & Dramani, A. (2017). Sustaining Ghana’s National Health Insurance Scheme through Preventive Healthcare Strategies and Legislation. RIMCIS: Revista Internacional y Multidisciplinar en Ciencias Sociales, 6(1), 47-69.
32. Adu-Gyamfi, S., & Brenya, E. (2016). Nursing in Ghana: A Search for Florence Nightingale in an African City. International Scholarly Research Notices.
33. Adu-Gyamfi, S., Brenya, E., & Amoah, A. (2015). National Health Insurance Scheme of Ejisu-Juaben and Matters Arising. Int’l J. Soc. Sci. Stud., 3, 40.
34. Brenya, E and Adu-Gyamfi, S. (2014). Interests Groups, Issue Definition and the Politics of Healthcare in Ghana. Public Policy and Administration Research, 4(6): 88-96.
35. Adu-Gyamfi, S., and Donkoh, WJ. (2013). A Historical Review of Diseases and Disease Prevention in Gold Coast. Historical Research Letter, 5: 1-39.
36. Adu-Gyamfi, S., Adjei, POW and Owusu-Ansah, D. (2013). Preventive Healthcare Strategies and Impact among the Asante People of the Early Twentieth Century Gold Coast: A Historical Narrative and Lessons for the Present Sanitation Challenge in Kumase. Journal of Studies in Social Sciences, 5(2): 214-238.
37. Adu-Gyamfi, S. (2023). A Discourse on Individuals’ Value for Herbal Medicine in Asante since the Pre-Colonial Era. UJAH: Unizik Journal of Arts and Humanities, 24(1), 83-115.
38. Adu-Gyamfi, S., & Obour A. S. (2023). Contemporary History of the Increasing Use of Traditional Medicine among the Asante of Ghana: A Focus on Afigya Kwabre South District. Caribbean Journal of Multidisciplinary Studies, 2(1), 25-44.
39. Bempong, E., Adu-Gyamfi, S., & Darkwa, B. D. (2023). Indigenous Systems of Forest Conservation: A Tool for Traditional Medical Practices in Akyem Abuakwa Traditional Area of Ghana. International Journal of Modern Anthropology, 2(19), 1183-1199.
40. Adu-Gyamfi, S., & Anderson, E. (2022). African Traditional Healing and Biomedicine: A Reconstruction of Colonial and Post-independence Health-Care History under Kwame Nkrumah, 1951-66. Journal of West African History. 8(1), 87-118.
.41.Adu-Gyamfi, S., Teikillah, A., Nyaaba, A. Y., Kuusaana, M. M., Darkwa, B. D., & Tomdi, L. (2020). Muslim Healers and Healing: An Ethnographic Study of Aboabo Community of Ghana. International Journal of Modern Anthropology. 2(14), 291-316.
42. Adu-Gyamfi, S., Darkwa, B. D., Awuah, D. B., & Tomdi, L. (2020). Cultural Changes and their Influences on Medical Practices among the Kwahu People of Ghana (c. 1700-2019). Kervan. International Journal of African and Asian Studies. 24(2), 143-175.
43. Adu-Gyamfi, S., & Anderson, E. (2019). Indigenous Medicine and Traditional Healing in Africa: A Systematic Synthesis of the Literature. Philosophy, Social and Human Disciplines, 1, 69-100.
44. Adu-Gyamfi, S., Oware, R., and Awuah, D. B. (2019). Interest Groups, Issue Definition and the Politics of Traditional Medicine in Ghana: Emphasis on Asante. Nordic Journal of African Studies, 28(4): 1-19.
45. Gyasi, R., Buor, D., Adu-Gyamfi, S., P. O. W., & Amoah, P. A. (2018). Sociocultural Hegemony, Gendered Identity, and Use of Traditional and Complementary Medicine in Ghana. Women & Health, 58 (5), 598-615.
46. Gyasi, R. M., Abass, K., Adu-Gyamfi, S., Accam, B. T., & Nyamadi, V. M. (2018). The Capabilities of Nurses for Complementary and Traditional Medicine Integration in Africa. The Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine, 24(3), 282-290.
47.Adu-Gyamfi, S., Marfo, C., Gbolo, S. C., & Kodua, P. (2018). Words in Healing: Some Ethnographic Observations from the Hohoe Area of Ghana. Int J Soc Sci Educ, 8, 77-94.
48. Adu-Gyamfi, S., Gyasi, R. M., and Poku, B. A. (2018). Women Assisting Women in a Village in Ghana: The Role of Traditional Birth Attendants in Wurubegu-Anansu. International Journal of Body, Mind and Culture, 5(1): 46-60
49. Adu-Gyamfi, S. (2018). From Vital Force to the Scientific or an Admixture: A Historical Discourse on Individuals Value for Indigenous Medical Practices in Ghana. J. Basic Appl. Res. Int. 2018, 1-23.
50. Adu-Gyamfi, S., and Oware, R. (2018). Wesleyan Mission Medicine in Asante (1901-2000). Journal of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences Studies: 335-376.
51. Gyasi, R. M., Abass, K., Adu-Gyamfi, S., & Accam, B. T. (2017). Nurses’ knowledge, clinical practice and attitude towards unconventional medicine: Implications for intercultural healthcare. Complementary therapies in clinical practice, 29, 1-8.
52. Adu-Gyamfi, S., & Adjei, R. (2017). Traditional Medicine: Narratives from an Indigenous Population. Lap Lambert Academic Publishing.
53. Gyasi, R. M., Asante, F., Abass, K., Yeboah, J. Y., Adu-Gyamfi, S., & Amoah, P. A. (2016). Do Health Beliefs Explain Traditional Medical Therapies Utilization? Evidence from Ghana. Cogent Social Sciences, 2(1), 1209995.
54. Adu-Gyamfi, S. (2016). Spiritual and Indigenous Healing Practices Among the Asnate People of Ghana: A Testimonial from Twenty-First Century Practitioners in Kumase. Journal of Basic and Applied Research International, 12(1), 39-50.
55. Adu-Gyamfi, S., & Bing, J. (2016). Traditional Healing Narratives from a Community in Ghana: An Empirical Study. Journal of Basic and Applied Research International. 17(2), 125-135.
56. Adu-Gyamfi, S. (2015). British Colonial Reform of Indigenous Medical Practices amongst the Asante People of the Gold Coast, 1930-1960. African Journal of History and Culture, 7(2): 57-63.
57. Adu-Gyamfi, S. (2014). Islamic Traditional Healing amongst the People of Sampa in Ghana: An Empirical Study. Online Int J Arts Human 3(7), 105-114.
58. Adu-Gyamfi, S., Osei-Egyir, H., & Darkwa, B. D. (2023). Ship Technology, Slavery, Repatriation and Air Transportation: Continuity and Change. History of Science and Technology, 13(1), 121-148.
59. Adu-Gyamfi, S., Gyasi, R. M., & Darkwa, B. D. (2021). Historicizing Medical Drones in Africa: A Focus on Ghana. History of Science and Technology, 11(1), 103-125.
60. Adu-Gyamfi, S., Amakye-Boateng, K., Awuah, D. B., Oware, R., and Quansah, S. (2020). An Evolutionary Study of Production of Electricity in Ghana (1900-1960). History of Science and Technology, 10(16): 10-33.
70. Adu-Gyamfi, S., Okine, E. F., and Oware, R. (2019). Science and Technology as Factors Advancing Ghana’s Healthcare: Past and Present. APSNIM, 2 (22): 78-87.
71. Adu-Gyamfi, S., Adjei, P. O. W., Oware, R., and Okine, E. F. (2019). Science, Technology and Healthcare Delivery in Ghana: A Historical Perspective. Journal of History of Culture, Science and Medicine, 10 (18): 94-115.
72. Adu-Gyamfi, S. (September 2017). From Motorola Dynatac to Apple iPhone 10 Plus: Responses on the Use of Mobile Telephony Technology from A University Community. Studijos Socialini? moksl?, 9(1): 65-89.
73. Adu-Gyamfi, S., Amakye-Boateng, K., Yartey, H. T., Dramani, A., and Adoteye, V. N. (December 2017). Nuclear Energy in Ghana? History, Science and Policy. Journal of Social and Development Sciences, 8(3): 11-34.
74. Adu-Gyamfi, S., Brenya, E., Antwi, F. O., Owusu-Edusei, D. E., & Nimoh, M. (2023). The Impact of Governmental Actions and Inactions on the Level of Political Participation on the Ghanaian Youth and how it affects Sustainable Development: A Focus on Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology. Journal of African Development Studies, 10(1), 14-29.
75. Dramani, A., Paalo, S. A., & Adu-Gyamfi, S. (2023). Emerging Local Voices and New Possibilities toward Attaining Sustainable Peace in Bawku, north-eastern Ghana. African Journal on Conflict Resolution, 23(1), 107-134.
76. Paalo, S. A., Adu-Gyamfi, S., & Arthur, D. D. (2023). Nationalist Secessionism and Global Order: A Comparison of the Dynamics and Impact of Secession Movements in Africa and Europe. Nations and Nationalism, 1-16.
77. Paalo, S. A., Degraft Arthur, D., Dramani, A., & Adu-Gyamfi, S. (2023). Exploring Hybrid Security Strategies in Ghana: State and Private Sector Partnerships. African Security Review, 1-17.
78. Adjei, P. O. W., & Adu-Gyamfi, S. (Eds.). (2022). Democratic Decentralization, Local Governance and Sustainable Development: Ghana’s Experiences for Policy and Practice in Developing Countries. Springer Nature.
79. Paalo, S. A, Adu-Gyamfi, S., & Arthur, D. D. (2022). Xenophobia and the Challenge of Regional Integration in Africa: Understanding Three Cardinal Dynamics. Acta Academica, 54(2), 6-23.
80. Adu-Gyamfi, S., Adjei, P. O. W., Nyaaba, A. Y. & Anderson, E. (2022). Historical Perspectives of Local Governance and Community Development in Ghana: Democratic, Decentralization, Local Governance and Sustainable Development: Ghana’s Experiences for Policy and Practice in Developing Countries, 21-42.
81. Adu-Gyamfi, S., Paalo, S. A., Brenya, E., Arthur, D. D., & Letsu, J. M. (2021). Rethinking the Influence of Colonialism on Secession in Africa: The Case of the Western Togoland Independence Movement in Ghana. The Australasian Review of African Studies, 42(2), 4-25.
82. Kofi Frimpong, A. N., Li, P., Adu-Gyamfi, S., & Obiora, S. C. (2021). Context of the Ghanaian Government: Social Media and Access to Information. ICT Systems and Sustainability: Proceedings of ICT4SD 2020, Volume 1 (pp. 741-751). Springer Singapore.
83. Amakye-Boateng, K., Adu-Gyamfi, S., Yartey, H. T., & Frimpong, J. O. (2021). Democratic Stability in Sub-Sharan Africa: Reflections on the Fourth Republic of Ghana. African Renaissance, 18(3), 277.
84. Sanni, S., Adu-Gyamfi, S., Abass, M., Yartey, H. T., & Amakye-Boateng, K. (2021). Feminism in Islam: A Study of the Obstacles of Muslim Women Political Participation in Ghana. African Journal of Gender, Society & Development, 10(4), 121.
85. Mohammed, A., Adu-Gyamfi, S., Zakaria, S. S. M., Yartey, H. T., & Darkwa, B. D. (2021). Muslims and Party Politics in Ghana: Historical Antecedents and Contemporary Analysis. Annals of Philosophy, Social and Human Disciplines, 1.
86. Adu-Gyamfi, S., Amakye-Boateng, K., and Oware, R, R. (2019). The Media and Socio-Political Change: A Snapshot of North Africa and Ghana’s Case. Paramita: Historical Studies Journal, 29.
87. Adu-Gyamfi, S., Ashaba, IM, and Paalo, SA (2019). State Fragility, Regime Survival and Spoilers in South Sudan. Kervan: International Journal of Afro-Asiatic Studies, 23(1): 77-99.
88. Amakye-Boateng, K., Adu-Gyamfi, S., and Afrane, M. (2019). Electoral Violence and Democratic Consolidation in Ghana: A Synthesis of the Literature (1993-2016). African Journal of Democracy and Governance, 6(2-3): 72-98.
89. Adu-Gyamfi, S. (2016). Book Review: Lee, CT. Ingenius Citizenship: Recrafting Democracy for Social Change. Atlantis: Critical Studies in Gender, Culture and Social Justice, 38(2): 239-242.
90. Adu-Gyamfi, S., Brenya, E and Ogu, JM. (2016). Historical Analysis of Political-Democratic Liberation in Africa: A Review Paper. International Humanities Studies, 3(3): 1-15
91. Adu-Gyamfi, S., and Brenya, E. (2015). External Forces on Africa’s Democracy and Development. Epiphany, 8(3): 28-56.
92. Brenya, E and Adu-Gyamfi, S. (2015). Analytical Review of the Internal Forces on Africa's Democracy and Development. European Scientific Journal, 11(35): 306-322.
93. Adu-Gyamfi, S. and Yartey, H. T. (2015). The Role of the National Commission for Civic Education in Citizenship Education During and After Elections: A Focus on the 2012 Elections in Ghana. International Journal of Social Sciences and Education, 5(4): 631-645.
94. Brenya, E., Adu-Gyamfi, S., Afful, I., Darkwa, B., Richmond, M. B. Korkor, SO, Boakye, ES and Turkson, GK (2015). The Rawlings’ Factor in Ghana’s Politics: An Appraisal of Some Secondary and Primary Data. Journal of Political Sciences and Public Affairs, 1(3): 1-14.
95. Adu-Gyamfi, S., and Yartey, H. T. (2014). Politics of issues or of sides: a treatise on what caused the eventual outcome of the 2012 Presidential Elections in Ghana. Journal of Emerging Trends in Educational Research and Policy Studies, 5(2): 167-173.
96. Kitchen, C., Kabba, J. A., Nelson, E. U, Adu-Gyamfi, S., Ssekamatte, T., Mametja, M., & Fang, Y. (2023): Medicinal Use of Cannabis: A Qualitative Study of the Perspectives of Doctors and Pharmacists from Six African Countries. Journal of Ethnicity in Substance Abuse, 1-25.
97. Adu-Gyamfi S., Amakye-Boateng, K., Nimoh, M., Owusu-Ansah, D., and Nyaaba A. Y. (2020). Illicit Drug Use and Trade: An Ethnographic Study of Kumase (2000-2018). Romanian Journal of Sociological Studies, New Series, (1):59- 81.
98. Adu-Gyamfi, S., & Brenya, E. (2015). The Marijuana Factor in A University in Ghana: A Survey. Journal of Siberian Federal University of Humanities and Social Sciences, 2: 2162-2182
99. Adu-Gyamfi, S., and Brenya, E. (2014). Rehushing Commentaries on the Effects and Potential Benefits of Cannabis: Lessons Ghana Can Learn from USA and Canada. Global Journal of Interdisciplinary Social Sciences, 3(3): 10-20.
100. Adu-Gyamfi, S., & Osei-Egyir, H. (2023). A Decolonial History of African Female Education and Training in Colonial Asante, 1920-1960. e Tropic: Electronic Journal of Studies in the Tropics, 22(2), 218-238.
101. Adu-Gyamfi, S., & Osei-Egyir, H. (2023). Redefining Indigenous Forms of Education: The Modelling of Technical/Vocational, Trade, and Agricultural Schools in Colonial Asante on Indigenous Knowledge. Education in Ghana: History and Politics, 201.
102. Adu-Gyamfi, S., Darkwa, B. D., Boateng, R. A. A. A., & Tomdi, L. (2022). Women’s Contribution to Biomedical Healthcare in Ghana: A Focus on Obuasi. Culture & History Digital Journal, 11(1), e009-e009.
103. Adu-Gyamfi, S., Ry-Kottoh, L. A., Esseh, S. S., & Darkwa, B. D. (2022). Print Culture in the History of Africa: The Role of the Written Word. Clio-A Journal of Literature History and the Philosophy of History, 49(2), 207-228.
104. Adu-Gyamfi, S., & Anderson, E. (2021). History Education in Ghana: A Pragmatic Tradition of Change and Continuity. Historical Encounters, 8(2), 18-33.
105. Adu-Gyamfi, S., Marfo, C. O., Nyaaba, A. Y., Amakye-Boateng, K., Abass, M., & Yartey, H. T. (2020). Free Senior High School (SHS) and Quality University Education in Ghana: The Role of the University Teacher. Journal of Educational and Socia Research, 10(5), 225-239.
106. Adu-Gyamfi, S. (2020). Women and Biomedical Healthcare in a Community in Ghana. Current issues of social sciences and history of medicine, 28(4): 59-64.
107. Adu-Gyamfi, S., Amakye-Boateng, K., Nyaaba, A. Y., Acheampong, A. B., Awuah, D. B., and Oware, R. (2019). Women and Medicine: A Historical and Contemporary Study on Ghana. Ethnologia Actualis, (19)2: 34-56.
108. Achebe, N., Adu-Gyamfi, S., Alie, J., Ceesay, H., Green, T., Hiribarren, V., and Kye-Ampadu, B. (2018). History Text Book: West African Senior School Certificate Examination (Publisher: British Arts and Humanities Research Council. Editor: Toby Green, ISBN: 978-9983-960-20-4).
109. Adu-Gyamfi, S., Donkoh, W. J., & Addo, A. A. (2016). Educational Reforms in Ghana: Past and Present. Journal of Education and Human Development, 5(3), 158-172.
110. Adu-Gyamfi, S., Brenya, E and Lamptey, EEL. (2014). Accommodation Reforms and Its Effects on Students: A Focus on Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology from 1960 to 2013. Global Journal of Human-Social Science 14(2)
111. Adu-Gyamfi, S. (2023). An Analysis of the Socioeconomic Impacts of the Lockdown Policy in Ghana. In Pandemic Response and the Cost of Lockdowns (pp. 127-139). Routledge.
112. Adu-Gyamfi, S., Mohammed, A., Obeng, J. A., Osei-Poku, S., & Yartey, H. T. (2022). COVID-19 in Africa: An Economic and Social Interpretation (2019-2022). Historijski Pogled/Historical Views, 8(1), 388-415.
113. Adu-Gyamfi, S., & Asante, E. A. (2022). Sources of Information About COVID-19 Among Older Adults in Ghana, 2019-2021. Journal of Social, Behavioral and Health Sciences, 16(1), 1-18.
114. Adu-Gyamfi, S., Tomdi, L., & Asiamah, P. (2021). The Influenza Pandemic in Colonial Asante: Lesson Drawing for the Fight Against COVID-19 in the Twenty-First Century. Revista de Etnologie ?i Culturologie, (30), 11-20.
115. Adu-Gyamfi, S., Brenya, E., Gyasi, R. M., Abass, K., Darkwa, B. D., Nimoh, M., & Tomdi, L. (2021). A COVID in the Wheels of the World: A Contemporary History of a Pandemic in Africa. Research in Globalization, 3, 100043.
116. Marfo, C. O., Adu-Gyamfi, S., Sanka, C. G., Darkwa, B. D., & Tomdi, L. (2021). “By June, Everyone Would Have Died”: Historicizing Humour during the COVID-19 Pandemic in Ghana. Modern Africa: Politics, History and Society. 9(2), 57-81.
117. Adu-Gyamfi, S. (2017). Mental Health Service in Ghana: A Review of the Case. International Journal of Public Health Science, 6(4), 299-313.
PAPERS PRESENTED AT CONFERENCES/SEMINARS AND WORKSHOPS
1. Adu-Gyamfi, S. (2023). Unrestricted Analysis of the COVID Narrative in Africa: Emphasis on the Ghanaian Medical Context. The Impact of COVID Restrictions on Low and Middle-Income Countries. King’s College, London.
2. Osei-Egyir, H., & Adu-Gyamfi, S. (2023). Voices from the Forest: Local Perspectives on Traditional Leadership and Forest Management in Asante. Digital Transformation of Land Governance in Africa. Hybrid Conference. University of Ghana
3. Adu-Gyamfi, S., & Tomdi, L. (2022). Politics of Saving Lives: Race, Quarantine and Inequality from Influenza Pandemic to COVID-19 in Ghana. Paper presented at the African Studies Association of Africa (ASAA) 4th Biennial Conference, Africa and the Human: Old questions, new imaginaries, Cape Town, South Africa.
4. Adu-Gyamfi, S., & Osei-Egyir, H. (2021). Indigenous Healers and Forest Ecology: Preserving Ghana’s Cultural Heritage through Roots and Herbs.
5. Adu-Gyamfi, S. (2021). Skin-Lightening in Ghana: Reporting on Three Different Empirical Research in Kumase, 2017-2019. Virtual conference organized by Mande Studies Association (MANSA) and Forum for Africa Studies, Uppsala University-Sweden. Beyond Crisis and Insecurity: Cultural Creativity, Popular Struggle and Social Change in West Africa.
6. Adu-Gyamfi, S., Arthur, DD., and Paalo, S. (2021). Nationalism, Separatism and the Pursuit of International Peace: A Comparative Study of Nationalist Movements in Africa and Europe. Paper presented at the Peace and Conflict Studies Conference, Virtual, 2021.
7. Adu-Gyamfi, S. (2021). Changing Landscape of Mission Medicine and Hospitals in Africa up to the Twenty-First Century. Online Research Seminar Series. West African History organized by IFRA-Nigeria (May 6th 2021).
8. Adu-Gyamfi, S., and Tomdi, L. (2020). Historicising Dilemmas and Hope in a Hospital Setting during a Pandemic. Paper presented at African Studies Association (ASA) conference, Session (VII-AN-8) Africa Now! Virtual, November 19, 2020.
9. Adu-Gyamfi, S. (2020). Online Literature Seminar on Skin Lightening: Images through the Lens of Colourism and Skin-Lightening Practices. Forum for Africa Studies, Uppsala University-Sweden, October 09 2020.
10. Adu-Gyamfi, S., Achebe, N., Ali, J., Green T., Ceesay, H., Haribarren, V. and Kye-Ampadu (2019). From Scholarship to the Classroom (Round Table Discussion). African Studies Association Conference, Boston MA, Morriot Couply Place (November 21st – 24th, 2019).
11. Adu-Gyamfi, S. (2019). Free Senior High School and Quality University Education: The Role of the University Teacher. Universities Teachers Association of Ghana (UTAG) National Congress, KNUST, Kumasi (October 2019).
12. Adu-Gyamfi, S. (2019). Historical Perspectives of Local Governance and community Development in Ghana: Past, Present and Future (1988-2018); Democratic Decentralization, Local Governance and Sustainable Development: Ghana’s Experiences in three Decades (1988-2018): Nordic Africa Institute in Collaboration with College of Humanities and Social Sciences, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (April 1-2nd, 2019).
13. Adu-Gyamfi, S. (2017). Current Research Paradigms for Knowledge Production in West-Africa. African Studies Association of the UK (ASAUK) Conference, Fourabay College, Sierra Leone-Freetown. 3rd-6th May, 2017.
14. Adu-Gyamfi, S. & Acheampong, S. H. (2016). Holocaust education and remembrance on the socio-cultural and political spaces of Ghana: an enduring example and a test case for other countries. BAHS Conference, 2016: The Presence of the Holocaust in Society, Politics and Culture, C. 1970 to 2015, UCL Institute of Education. 19th – 21st July 2016.
15. Adu-Gyamfi, S., Charles Marfo. (2014). The Efficacy of Words in Indigenous Healing: Some Ethnographic Observations, Linguistic Association of Ghana 7th Annual Conference, UPSA, and Accra-Ghana. 29th-31st July, 2014.
16. Adu-Gyamfi, S. (2013). Dying while taking medicine: a study in faith and medicine in twentieth century Asante., Ghana Studies Conference, KNUST. 23rd-26th May, 2013.
LIST OF ALL OTHER PUBLICATIONS
1. Adu-Gyamfi, S., Fordjour, EA., Marfo, CO., Forson, IA. (2020). Funerals among the Akan People: Some Perspectives on Asante. Revista De Etnologie ?i Culturologie, 27: 44-53.
2. Sanka, C. G., Adu-Gyamfi, S., and Marfo, C. O. (2020). Tales in the Paasaali Dirge: Structure and Moral Lessons from the Past. Manusya: Journal of Humanities, 23(1), 19-39.
3. Adu-Gyamfi, S., Bempong, E., Yartey, HT., and Darkwa, BD (2020). British Land Policies in the Gold Coast and Her Relations with Asante. Studia Historiae Oeconomicae 38: 163-181.
4. Adu-Gyamfi, S. (2018). Book Review: Davies, S. E., Kamradt-Scott, A., and Rushton, S. (eds.) (2015). Disease Diplomacy: International Norms and Global Health Security. Academic Council on the United Nations System (ACUNS). Available at http://acuns.org
5. Adu-Gyamfi, S. (2017). Book Review: Vidal, F. and Dias, N. (eds.) (2015). Endangerment, Biodiversity and Culture. History of Anthropology Newsletter, 41.
6. Adu-Gyamfi, S. (2017). Book Review: Kirton, John J., Cooper, Andrew F., Lisk, Franklyn., and Besada, H (eds.). (2014). Moving Health Sovereignty in Africa: Disease, Governance, Climate Change. Political Studies Review 15.2: 334-334.
7. Sanusi, AH and Adu-Gyamfi, S (2017). Ghana’s Foreign Policy: Some Regional and National Interests. Journal of Human Sciences, 14(1): 598-608.
8. Brenya, E., Adu-Gyamfi, S., and Warden, E. (2017). Globalization and Development Gap in Developing Countries: A Comparison of Post-Independence Development Trajectories of Ghana and Singapore. Asia Pacific Journal of Education, Arts and Sciences, 4(3): 114-120.
9. Adu-Gyamfi, S., Donkoh, WJ, and Gyamfuah, DNA. (2017). Review of the History of Distilled Liquor and Its Impact on the Kumasi People of Ghana. Journal of Philosophy, Social and Human Disciplines, 1: 53-92.
10. Adu-Gyamfi, S., Adjei, POW and Tetteh, C. (2017). The Waste Management Department of the Metropolitan Assembly of a City in Ghana (1992-2016): An Evidence-Based Assessment from a People. Finnish Journal of Environmental History, 7(1): 7-38.
11. Brenya, E., Adu-Gyamfi, S., Kyei, E. Y., Tariah, F. P., Nmerukini, A., Boateng, E. K., and Angmor, R.Y. (2017). Public Service Motivation in Ghanaian Civil Service: A case Study of Ejisu-Juabeng Municipality. International Journal of Public Administration 40(2): 164-175.
12. Adu-Gyamfi, S. (2016). Book Review: Winkler, I. (2014). The Human Right to Water: Significance, Legal Status and Implications for Water Allocation. Academic Council on the United Nations System (ACUNS). Available at http://acuns.org/review-of-the-human-right-to-water-significance-legal-status-and-implications-for-water-allocation/
13. Adu-Gyamfi, S., Brenya, E and Gariba, S. (2016). The Balkans and the European Union. Epiphany 9(2): 91-105.
14. Adu-Gyamfi, S., Brenya, E., and Owusu-Ansah, D. (2016). History’s Role in Policy Making: Proffering Solutions and Questions for Humanity and the Ghanaian Context. Modern Research Studies: International Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences, 3(2): 261-285.
15. Sanusi, A H and Adu-Gyamfi, S (2016). Terrorism and Counter-Terrorism: The Conundrum between Russia and the US in Syria et al. Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences 1(2): 36-42.
16. Sanka, CG, Adu-Gyamfi, S., and Marfo, CO. (2016). The Politics and Poetics of Certain Traditional Circumstantial Names: Sisaali Culture of Ghana. International Humanities Studies, 3(3): 1-15.
17. Adu-Gyamfi, S., Brenya, E., and Abakah, E. (2015). Artisanal Mining and its Ramifications on the People of Prestea. Journal of Social Sciences, 7(4), 1-13.
18. Adu-Gyamfi, S. (2015). Ancient Egyptian Medicine: A Systematic Review. Annals of Philosophy, Social and Human Disciplines, 2(1): 9-21.
19. Adu-Gyamfi, S. (2015). Book Review: Eid, Michael and Larsen, Randy J. (eds.). (2008). The Science of Subjective Well-Being. African Review of Economics and Finance, 7(1): 124-126.
20. Adu-Gyamfi, S., and Brenya, E and Nuako, AG. (2015). National Health Insurance and Free Maternal Healthcare in Ghana: Responses from Women and Health Workers in Akropong. An International Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences 2(4): 696-737.
21. Owusu-Ansah, D., Brenya, E., Adu-Gyamfi, S., and Damtar, D. (2015). Corporate Social Responsibility of Mining Companies in Ghana: The Case of Newmont Ghana Gold Limited at Ahafo. Journal of Social and Development Sciences, 6(4): 52-70.
22. Adu-Gyamfi, S., Gyasi, RM and Adjei, POW. (2014). Twentieth-century Wanzams among the Asante People of Ghana: A Historical Study of the Facts on Male Circumcision. Open Journal of Preventive Medicine, 4(9): 730-739.
23. Adu-Gyamfi, S., Donkoh, WJ. and Owusu-Ansah, D. (2013). A Historical Narrative of the British Colonial Administration’s Clampdown on Witch Finding Shrines amongst the Asante People of the Gold Coast. International Journal of Arts and Humanities, 2(9): 228-234.
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