Edmund Abaka is a photographer and historian of Africa at the

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. He is a graduate of the

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and received his master's from the

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in Canada. He received his

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from

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in 1998. He is a

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Selected publications

* ''"Kola is God's Gift": Agricultural Production, Export Initiatives and the Kola Industry of Asante and the Gold Coast, c. 1820–1950''. Ohio University Press, Athens, 2005. (Western African Studies) * ''Culture And Customs of Ethiopia''. 2007 * ''House of Slaves and "Door of No Return": Gold Coast/Ghana Slave Forts, Castles & Dungeons and the Atlantic Slave Trade''. University of Wisconsin Press * ''W. E. B. Du Bois on Africa'' (edited with Eugene F. Provenzo)

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External links

*https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Edmund_Abaka *http://eabaka.tripod.com/ Living people Year of birth missing (living people) University of Miami faculty Historians of Africa York University alumni University of Cape Coast alumni University of Guelph alumni Ghanaian photographers Place of birth missing (living people) Nationality missing Ghanaian emigrants to the United States Historians from Florida {{US-historian-stub