Books

• Tella, F., G. B. Assibey and C. O. Marfo. (2023). An Introduction to Communication, Kumasi: Vantage Solution [ISBN: 978-9988-3-5609-5]
• With others (2021). Ani Nwoma no (A translation of The Eye Book by Kenneth Youngstein into Asante Twi). New York: Orbis International. Online: https://cybersight.org/wp-content/uploads/eye_book_2018_Africa_2018-Interactive-Portrait-Version-V2_Igbo_TW.pdf
• With others (2016). Twi Medical Glossary for Clinical Students and Health Workers. KNUST-MEPI Projects.
• Bodomo, A, C. Marfo, and L. Hall-Lew. (2010). Let’s Speak Twi: A Proficiency Course in Akan Lanuage and Culture, Stanford: CSLI Publications. [ISBN: 978-1-5758-660-4]
• Marfo, C. (2009). Aspects of Akan Grammar and the Phonology-Syntax Interface. Saarbrücken: Lambert Academic Publishing. [ISBN: 978-3-8383-2791-4]
• Marfo, C (Ed.). (2008). Reflections on Religion and Science. Kumasi: University Printing Press. [ISBN: 998-8-7815-5-5]

Journal Papers and Book Chapters

• Esimaje, A. C. O. Marfo and D. Ochieng. (2024). English-medium instruction in higher education in West Africa, in K. Bolton, W. & Botha, B. Lin (Eds) The Routledge Handbook of English-Medium Instruction in Higher Education, xx-xxx. Oxon: Routledge.
• Broohm, O. N. and C. Marfo. (2023). Noun-noun compounding in Esahie. Ghana Journal of Linguistics 12.3: 18-43.
• Manu, J. G., B. Ampong, C. Marfo. (2023). Analysing presupposition: A study on President Akufo-Addo’s state of the nation's address 2022. Language Literacy: Journal of Linguistics, Literature, and Language Teaching 7.2: 384-398
• Addo, P. K., G. K. Anane, C. O. Marfo and A. Adusei. (2023). Institutional approaches to supporting students during the COVID-19 pandemic: A comparative study of two Ghanaian public universities' online learning experiences, in L. Namatende-Sakwa, et al. (Eds), COVID-19 and Education in Africa: Challenges, Possibilities, and Opportunities, 152-166. Oxon: Routledge.
• Anane, G. K., P. K. Addo, A. Adusei and C. O. Marfo. (2023). Risk management strategies for teaching and learning in Ghanaian public universities during the COVID-19 pandemic, in L. Namatende-Sakwa, et al. (Eds), COVID-19 and Education in Africa: Challenges, Possibilities, and Opportunities, 218-232. Oxon: Routledge.
• Dumedah G.,  C. O. Marfo, S. A. Andam-Akorful (2022). An interoperability mobile application for location and travel planning services in Ghana –myTroski. International Journal of Applied Geospatial Research13(1): 1-17.
• Akoto, O. Y.,  C. O. Marfo, J. O. Ansah, E. A. Fordjour and I. Adjei Forson. (2022). Examining graphemic and lexical anglicisms in Twi for academic purposes in textbooks written in Twi. Linguistik online113(1): 3-15.
• Marfo, C. O., S. Adu-Gyamfi, C. G. Sanka, B. D. Darkwa, and L. Tomdi. (2022). “By June, everyone would have died”: Historicizing humor during the COVID-19 Pandemic in Ghana. Modern Africa: Politics, History and Society9(2): 56-80.
• Marfo, Cand M. Mpotsiah. (2021). Discourse diversity in language use: A pragmatic inference of ‘I’m Coming’ in Ghanaian interpersonal communication. CLAREP Journal of English and Linguistics (C-JEL) 3: 65-81.
• Arthur, P.,  C. O.  Marfoand E. ResCue. (2021). Carrying the war against COVID-19 into Ghanaian Communities: The case of the Akan community. E-Journal of Humanities Arts and Social Sciences 2(8): 108-119.
• Mpotsiah, M,  C. O. Marfo, I. Adjei Forson, E.A. Fordjour. (2021). A discourse pragma-stylistic analysis of invective expressions in Ghanaian politics. Ghana Journal of Linguistics10(1): 202-227.
• Adu-Gyamfi, S., I. Adjei Forson, C. O. Marfo, E. A. Fordjour and H. T. Yartey. (2020). A rhetorical interpretation of character assassination in the contemporary history of Ghana. African Notes44 (1 & 2); 1- 31.
• Adu-Gyamfi, S., C. O. Marfo, A. Y. Yaaba, K. Amakye-Boateng, M. Abass, and H. T. Yartey. (2020). Free Senior High School (SHS) and quality university education in Ghana: The role of the university teacher. Journal of Educational and Social Research 10 (5): 225-239.
• Adu-Gyamfi, S., E. A. Fordjour, C. O.Marfo, and I. Adjei Forson. (2020). Funeral among the Akan people: Some perspectives on Asante. Journal of Ethnology and Culturology 27: 44-53.
• Sanka, C.G., S. Adu-Gyamfi and C. O. Marfo. 2020. Tales in the Paasaali dirge: Structure and moral lessons from the past. MANUSYA Journal of Humanities 23: 19-39.
• Adam-Moses, K. and C. O. Marfo. (2018). Power in Institutional Discourse: An Analysis of Admission Letters of some Public Universities in Ghana. Real Studies 15: 97-110.
• Marfo, C. and E. K. Osam. (2018). Optimal inflections as asymmetry between verbal and nominal reduplicated forms in Akan. Ghana Journal of Linguistics 7(2): 33-51.

• Adu-Gyamfi, S., C. Marfo, C.G. Sanka, P. Kodua. (2018). Words in healing: Some ethnographic observations from the Hohoe Area of Ghana. International Journal of Social Sciences and Education 8(3): 77-94.
• Marfo, C. (2016). Prosody drives syntax: Prosody in the focus and topic constructions of Akan. Linguistics Journal, 10(1): 164-181.
• Sanka, C., S. Adu-Gyamfi and C. Marfo. (2016). The politics and poetics of certain traditional circumstantial names: Sisaali culture of Ghana. International Humanities Studies, 3(3): 1-15.
• Bonku, L., P. A. Yeboah, C. Marfo. (2016). Old women as repositories of wisdom: Insights from novels by Ama Ata Aidoo and Amma Darko. Metaphors: Contemporary Studies in Literature and Language, 1(2): 48-58.
• Marfo, C. (2016). Prosody drives structure: The case of compounds in Akan. Issues in Language Studies, Vol. 5, No. 1: 84-97.
• Adu Manyah, K., C. Marfo, K. Opoku-Agyeman and J. Aning. (2016). Dominant voices and sounds of Akan proverbs and riddles. Social Sciences and Humanities Journal, 1(3): 212-221.
• Appiah, G. and C. Marfo. (2015). Semantically incorrect: An overview of some Akan constructions. Journal of Advances in Humanities, 4(1): 360-367.
• Marfo, C. and C. Hill. (2015). Pragmatics of humor at the workplace: A case study. SamaraAltLinguo E-Journal 6: 10-23.
• Marfo, C., P. A. Yeboah and L. Bonku (2015). Exploiting the exploiter: Some violations of society’s expectations in Beyond the Horizon and The Housemaid, 3L: The Southeast Asian Journal of English Language Studies, 21(1): 35-46.
• Marfo, C. and D. Aminu. (2014). Political rhetoric landscape of Ghana: Examining the dominant rhetorical appeals in the 2008 presidential election campaigns. Akademeia, 4(1): 1-9.
• Abakah, P., C. Marfo and L. Bonku. (2014). An angle of seeing: Pornography and profanity as pharmakon in Amma Darko’s Beyond the Horizon and The Housemaid. Advances in Language and Literary Studies 5(2): 108-114.
• Osam E. K., C. Marfo and K. Agyekum. (2013). The morphophonology of the Akan reduplicated word-form, Journal of Language and Linguistic Studies, 9 (2): 45-56.
• Marfo, C. (2013). Optimizing structure: The case of the 'CrV' syllable in Akan. Ghana Journal of Linguistics 2(1): 63-78.
• Ofori-Duah, K. and C. Marfo. (2013). Behind the box: A sociological analysis of theft, tampering and mishandling of postal packets. Journal of Language, Technology & Entrepreneurship in Africa, 4(1): 31-43.
• Marfo, C. (2012). Book Review – The Akan noun phrase: Its structure and meaning. Ghana Journal of Linguistics, 1(1): 79-88.
• Nsiah, J. and C. Marfo. (2011). What is in a title? A reading of Amma Darko’s the Housemaid. In G. Collier (ed.) Sphere Public or Private of Matatu: Journal for African Culture and Society, 39: 363-376.
• Marfo, C., K. Opoku-Agyeman and J. Nsiah. (2011). Symbols of communication: The case of Àdì?krá and other symbols of Akan. International Journal: Language, Society and Culture 32: 63-71.
• Abakah, P. and C. Marfo. (2009). Expressing culture through drama: A reading of Anowa and The Marriage of Anansewa. Journal of Language, Technology and Entrepreneurship in Africa, 1(2): 175-186.
• Marfo, C. and S. Yankson. (2008). The structure of the 'CCV' syllable of Akan. Concentric: Studies in Linguistics, 34(2): 85-100.
• Bodomo, A. and C. Marfo. (2006). The morphophonology of noun classes in Dagaare and Akan. Studi Linguistici e Filologici Online 4(2): 205-244.
• Bodomo, A., C. Marfo, A. Cunningham and S. Mok. (2006). A unicode keyboard for African languages: The case of Dagaare and Twi. International Journal of Technology and Human Interaction, 2(1): 1-20.
• Marfo, C. and A. Bodomo. (2005). Information structuring in question-word fronting and focus constructions of Akan. Studies in African Linguistics, 34(2): 179-208.
• Marfo, C. (2005). Akan focus and topic constructions and the prosody-syntax interface. Journal of West African Languages 32(1): 45-60.
• Marfo, C. (2004). On tone and segmental processes in Akan phrasal words: A prosodic account. Linguistik online 18: 93-110.

Papers in refereed conference proceedings

• Marfo, C. and A. Bodomo. (2004). Information processing in question-word fronting and focus constructions of Akan. In M. Butt and T.H. King (eds.) Proceedings of the LFG04 conference, 93-119. Stanford: CSLI.
• Marfo, C. (2004). The prosody-syntax interface in Akan focus and topic constructions. Proceedings of the 4^th Postgraduate Research Forum on Linguistics: 125-133. Hong Kong: University of Hong Kong.
• Marfo, C. and S. Yankson. (2008). Religiously incorrect: An overview of some religion-centered language. In C. Marfo (Ed.) Reflections on Religion and Science, 155-164. Kumasi: University Printing Press.
• Marfo, C. 2010. The structure of Akan compounds: Some prosodic structural insights. In M. E. K. Dakubu, N. A. Amfo, E. K. Osam, K. K. Saah and G. Akanlig-Pare (eds.) Studies in the Languages of the Volta Basin 6, 141-152.

CONFERENCES/SEMINARS AND WORKSHOPS

• Marfo, Charles. 2018. Digitizing for societal needs: The case of Twi Medical Glossary. ACALAN Workshop on African Languages in the Cyberspace, Oasis Motel, Gaborone, Botswana, June 21-22, 2018.
• Marfo, Charles. 2018. Content and structure of 'Discussions' and 'Results' sections of theses. Academic Writing for Africa Workshop, Choice Gate Hotel, Benin City, Nigeria, May 28 - June 2, 2018.
• Marfo, Charles and Osam, E. Kweku. (2018). Optimal inflections as asymmetry between verbal and nominal reduplicated forms in Akan. Dolphyne@80 Symposium, University of Ghana, Legon, March 1, 2018.
• Marfo, Charles. and Isaac Adjei-Forson. 2017. Identity markers in Akan and their affixations. 30th West African Languages Congress (WALC2017) and 10th Linguistics Association of Ghana Conference (LAG2017), UEW, Ghana, July 31-Aug. 05, 2017.
• Marfo, Charles. 2016. "Meboa anaa?": Question and Disjunction in Akan. 9th Linguistics Association of Ghana Conference (LAG2016), Ghana Insitutte of Linguistics, Lieterary and Bible Translation (GILLBT), Tamale, Ghana, July 25-28, 2016.
• Marfo, Charles. 2015. English in Ghana: Some Observations. Workshop on English Studies in an International Perspective, University of Potsdam, Brandensburg, Germany, Jan. 8-9, 2015.
• Abakah, Philomena, Charles Marfo and Lucy Bonku. 2013. Angle of seeing: Pornography and profanity as pharmakon in Amma Darko's 'Beyond the Horizon' and 'the Housemaid'. 6th Linguistics Association of Ghana Conference (LAG2013), University of Cape Coast, Ghana, July 28-31, 2013.
• Appiah, George and Charles Marfo. 2013. Semantically incorrect: An overview of some selected expression in Akan. 6th Linguistics Association of Ghana Conference (LAG2013), University of Cape Coast, Ghana, July 28-31, 2013.
• Marfo, Charles and Dramani Aminu. 2012. Political rhetoric landscape of Ghana: Examining the dominant rhetorical appeals in the 2008 Presidential Election campaigns. 5th Linguistics Association of Ghana Conference (LAG2012), University of Education, Winneba, Ghana, July 29-Aug. 1, 2012.
• Marfo, Charles. 2012. Optimization of rules in the focus and topic construction of Akan and the phonology-syntax interface. Annual Conference on African Linguistics (ACAL) 43, Tulane University, New Orleans, U.S.A., March 15-17, 2012.
• Marfo, Charles. 2011. Expressing cultural knowledge through literature: Some insights from drama. 3rd. Inter-University Seminar for Doctoral Studies in Ghana, KNUST (NODA Hotel, Fumesua), April 18-22, 2011.
• Marfo, Charles. 2010. Optimizing structure: The case of the 'CCV' syllable of Akan. Annual Conference on African Linguistics (ACAL) 41, University of Toronto, May 6-8, 2010.
• Marfo, Charles. 2010. Towards the Creation of a Keyboard for African languages: The case of Akan. African Human Language Technologies Conference, Djibouti City, Djibouti, 17-20 January, 2010.
• Marfo, Charles. 2009. The Structure of Akan Compounds: Some Prosodic Structural Insights. Paper presentation at Colloquium 2009: Languages of the Volta Basin, University of Ghana, Legon, Accra, January 12-17, 2009.
• Marfo, Charles and Solace Yankson. 2008. Religiously Incorrect: An Overview of some Religion-Centred Language. Paper presentation at the 1^st. Religion and Science Conference, Great Hall Conference Room, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi, June 18-June 21, 2008.

• Marfo, Charles. 2008. The Role of the Christian Intellectual in Church Growth. Paper presentation at the 1^st. HOFSA Intellectual Forum, Aseda House, Adum-Kumasi, January 19, 2008.
• Marfo, Charles. 2007a. Ingredients for Academic Success. Paper presentation at the 1^st. HOFSA Annual Retreat, Republic Hall, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, July 16-20, 2007.
• Marfo, Charles. 2007b. The 'CCV' syllable structure of Akan: An optimality-theoretic analysis. Paper presentation at the 1^st. Departments of English and Modern Languages (KNUST) Academic Retreat, Busua Beach Resort, March 9-11, 2007.
• Marfo, Charles. 2005. Symbols of expression: The case of Adinkra symbols of Akan. Paper presentation at the 2^nd Roundtable Discussion on African Studies, African Studies Group, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong. May 25, 2005.
• Marfo, Charles. 2004. Kofi Annan and other Akan names: A study of personal names in the Akan language. Paper presentation at the 1^st Roundtable Discussion on African Studies, African Studies Group, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong. May 25, 2004.
• Bodomo, Adams, Charles Marfo and Parco Wong (2004). The linguistic, cultural and ethnic repertoire of Tsim Sha Tsui’s Chungking Mansions: A Study in urban anthropological linguistics. Paper presentation at the Linguistic Society of Hong Kong Annual Research Forum (LSHK ARF) 2004, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology on December 2004.
• Marfo, Charles. 2002a. Aspects of the phonology-syntax interface in Akan. Paper presented at the 33rd. Annual Conference on African Linguistics (ACAL 33). U.S.A.: Ohio University, Athens. March 2002.
• Bodomo, Adams and Charles Marfo. 2002. The morphophonology of noun classes in Dagaare and Akan. Paper presented at the 33rd. Annual Conference on African Linguistics (ACAL 33). U.S.A.: Ohio University, Athens. March 2002.
• Marfo, Charles. 2002b. On question-word fronting and focus constructions in Akan: An LFG account. Paper presentation at the Linguistic Society of Hong Kong Annual Research Forum (LSHK ARF) 2002, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology on December 2002.