Prof. George Meyiri Bob-Milliar

Associate Professor


Dept: History and Political Studies
New Social Sciences Block Complex
Office Room: First Floor (FF 13D)
Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology
PMB, UP KNUST, Kumasi-Ghana


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Research Areas/Interests

His areas of research cut across three related disciplines; political science, history, development studies. His research interests include democratic...~more

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Publications

    SELECTED PUBLICATIONS (2021-date)

    Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles

    2025:    Manu-Osafo MJ, Bob-Milliar GM, & Jones B. “Urban History in Kumase, Ghana: A Note on Archives.” History in Africa. Published online 2025:1-14. doi:10.1017/hia.2024.7

    2024: Bob-Milliar GM. “Learned Societies, Knowledge Production, and Public Engagement in Colonial and Postcolonial Ghana, 1930–90”. The Journal of African History, 1–17. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0021853724000458

    2024:    Anderson, EAB, Bob-Milliar, GM., Adu-Gyamfi, S., & Paalo, S. A., ‘Student-Government Entanglements in Ghana: How to (not)understand Students’ Relations with Civilian and Military Regimes, 1960-1992.’ Africa Today Vol. 70, No. 3, pp. 75-97.

    2024:    Anderson, EAB, Bob-Milliar, GM & Adu-Gyamfi, S. ‘The Women Factor in Gendered Student Activism in Ghana from Independence to the Present.’ Ghana Studies Vol. 26, pp. 101-124.

    2023:    Manu-Osafo, MJ & Bob-Milliar, GM. ‘Manifestations of Colonial Modernity in Asante: Kumase Public Parks and Town Hall as Symbols of ‘Civic Pride’, 1901-1960.’ International Journal of African Historical Studies Vol. 56, No. 3, pp. 297-327.

    2023: Bob-Milliar, GM & Paller, JW. ‘The Social Embeddedness of Elections: Ghana’s 2016 and 2020 Campaigns.’ Commonwealth and Comparative Politics, Vol. 61, No. 3, pp. 293–314. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14662043.2023.2242107.

    2023:    Dumedah, G., N-Yajasan Binche, N., Bob-Milliar, GM., Iddrisu, S., Twumasi, EK., & Boateng, JA. ‘The Case of Electoral Polling Station Data for Geocoding in Facilitating Accessibility to Social, Economic and Cultural Opportunities in Ghana.’ African Geographical Review, Vol. 42, No. 5, 560-573. DOI:  10.1080/19376812.2022.2076134   

    2022:    Bob-Milliar, GM & Nyaaba, AY. ‘Modernising Royals and Capitalists of Kumase: The Ashanti Turf Club, 1950-1980s’, Journal of West African History, Vol. 8, No. 1, pp. 45-76. https://muse.jhu.edu/article/874106

    2022:    Dumbe, Y & Bob-Milliar, GM. ‘Unregulated Religious Spaces in Public Universities in Ghana: Evidence of the Radicalisation of Young Muslim Students.’ Journal of Contemporary African Studies, Vol. 40, No. 2, pp. 463-479. https://doi.org/10.1080/02589001.2022.2121808.

    2022:    Bob-Milliar, GM. ‘Introduction: Methodologies for Researching Africa.’ African Affairs, Vol. 121, No. 484, pp. e55–e65, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/afraf/adaa011

    Peer-Reviewed Book Chapters

    2024:    Bob-Milliar, GM. ‘Ghana.’ In Seidu M. Alidu. Benedikt Kamski, Andreas Mehler & David Sebudubudu (eds.), Africa Yearbook – Politics, Economy and Society South of the Sahara in 2023, Vol. 20. Pp. 106-116. Leiden: BRILL.

    2023:    Bob-Milliar, GM. ‘Ghana.’ In Seidu M. Alidu. Benedikt Kamski, Andreas Mehler & David Sebudubudu (eds.), Africa Yearbook – Politics, Economy and Society South of the Sahara in 2022, Vol. 19. Pp. 97-107. Leiden: BRILL.

    2023:    Lauterbach, K. and Bob-Milliar, GM. ‘Grounding the Prosperity Gospel: Sites of Wealth and Power in Ghana’. In Michael Wilkinson and Jörg Haustein (eds.), The Pentecostal World. Pp. 343-353. London: Routledge.

    2022:    Bob-Milliar, GM. ‘Introduction’. In Ana Magdalena Figueroa (ed.), The Impact of Foreign Interventions on Democracy and Human Rights. Pp. 1-3. London: Emerald Publishing Limited.

    2022:    Bob-Milliar, GM. ‘Africa’s Contributions to World Civilization.’ In Samuel O. Oloruntoba and Toyin Falola (eds.), The Palgrave Handbook of Africa and the Changing Global Order. Pp. 25-42. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-77481-3_2.

    2021:    Bob-Milliar, GM. ‘Ghana: Recent History.’ In Iain Frame (ed.), Africa South of the Sahara 2022, 51st Edition. Pp.536-540. London: Routledge.

     

    NON-PEER REVIEWED RELEVANT PUBLICATIONS/BLOG POST

    Bob-Milliar, GM & Rachel Sigman, ‘How Ghana’s economic crisis is reshaping its democracy’, The Washington Post/Monkey Cage December 1, 2022.

    Bob-Milliar, GM & Jeffrey Paller, The Social Embeddedness of Elections: Ghana’s 2016 and 2020 Campaigns. Governance and Local Development Institute Working Paper Working Paper No. 60, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=4260215

     

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