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About Aluta Continua

Recovering the nearly lost history of Ghana's student movement through archives, oral histories, and sound. Connecting past struggles to the questions of today.

Team

Project Background

Anakwa Dwamena

Research Lead/Podcast Co-hostAnakwa Dwamena is a writer and researcher. Focusing on communities of African descent on both sides of the Atlantic, his work deals with the intergenerational transmission of knowledge, memory, culture and practices of community making as political survival. He is in the Anthropology PhD program at Princeton University, and has written for publications like The New Yorker, New York Times, The Nation, New York Review of Books, Africa is a Country amongst others.

Nana Ama Asante

Podcast Co-hostNana Ama Agyemang Asante is a journalist, writer and researcher of topics ranging from politics, gender, religion and sexuality and all their various intersections. She is particularly interested in how actors use African indigenous histories and concepts with foreign ones to inform social categories, and shape the religious and political landscape in Ghana. She co-hosted Citi’s Breakfast Show for years. She was a fellow at the Reuters Institute for Journalism at Oxford and the National Endowment for Democracy. She is currently a PhD student in Religion and Society.

Adwoa A. Fofie

Project Lead/Cultural ProducerAdwoa Fofie is a visual artist and scientist working around questions of local practices, education, and social knowledge. She is interested in the politics of the everyday as living archives and cultural continuity. Using a decolonial lens, she traces how inherited narratives of power, history, and ecology manifest in the details of daily life. For her, memory and personal testimony are not passive reflections of the past, but active, vital tools for forging more equitable and ecologically conscious futures.

Moshood Balogun

Bright Gyamfi

Historical ConsultantBright Gyamfi is an Assistant Professor of History at Rutgers University–New Brunswick. His research examines the transnational networks of Ghanaian and African intellectuals whose work reshaped African Studies, Black Studies, Black Internationalism, and economic development thought following African independence. His scholarship examines the global circulation of Nkrumahist and Pan-Africanist thought across the U.S., the Caribbean, Latin America, and Africa.

Methodology

The project is built on original archival research conducted across multiple repositories in Ghana, including the J. H. Kwabena Nketiah Archives at the University of Ghana, the Catholic Standard Press, the Ghana Center for Democratic Development (CDD-Ghana), and PRAAD. We have digitized thousands of pages of documents, newspaper clippings, and photographs spanning several decades of student activism.
In addition to archival work, the project draws on oral history interviews with former student activists, organizers, and witnesses from the 1960s through the early 1990s. These interviews provide firsthand accounts of protest, organizing, military repression, and the lived experience of the student movement.
The podcast employs a narrative, scene-building approach—using archival materials, interview excerpts, and sound design to evoke the historical context of each era. The website serves as a companion digital archive, making primary sources accessible to researchers, students, and the public.

Sources & Acknowledgments

Aluta Continua would not be possible without the generosity and courage of the many individuals and institutions who have contributed to this project.

Key Archival Sources

Acknowledgments

This project was made possible with the generous support of the Mellon Foundation.We extend our deepest gratitude to the former student activists, military personnel, public officers, and professors who trusted us with their stories. Their courage, candour, and commitment made this project possible.Special thanks to:

Professor Gyimah-Boadi: Co-Founder, Ghana Center for Democratic Development (CDD-Ghana).
Mrs. Judith Opoku-Boateng: Head, University of Ghana Archives.
George Gyesaw: Chief Archivist, J. H. Kwabena Nketiah Archives.
Ato Annan: Co-Director, Foundation for Contemporary Art, Ghana (FCA).

We are also grateful to the Institute of African Studies at the University of Ghana for their institutional support.We are indebted to the staff of the Catholic Standard Press and PRAAD for their assistance and access to materials.To all our interlocutors—the historians, archivists, professors, retired military personnel, musicians, and community elders who provided crucial context and continuity—we offer our sincere thanks.

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