John Osei Bobie-Boahin
Department of Indigenous Art and TechnologySocial SciencesPhysical SciencesLife Sciences

John Osei Bobie-Boahin

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Research Overview & Focus

This researcher's work integrates ancient materials like amulets and tanned leathers into innovative designs across diverse fields, from archaeology to fashion and industry. Their focus on manufacturing processes and cultural heritage highlights a synthesis of historical insights with modern techniques.

Faculty Biography

Prof. John Osei Bobie Boahin is an Associate Professor in Faculty of Art, Department of Industrial Art, born in Kumasi Ghana on 1st January 1957. He has worked as a Senior Lecturer and Head of the Department of Integrated Rural Art and Industry, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi. He is a Leather Technologist, Art Educationist and a Researcher with the following qualifications to his credit; Teacher Certificate ‘A’, Bachelor of Arts, Post-Graduate Diploma in Art Education, Master     of Philosophy (Art Education). Doctor of Philosophy (Art Education).He has more than 30 years’ experience as a professional teacher/lecturer at the second cycle and tertiary levels of education, with extensive experience as trainer of trainees and a master craftsman, working variously as a designer and manufacturer in Leatherwork, Picture Making, Fabric Printing, Woodwork, Bamboo, Raffia and Calabash art. His work as a researcher in indigenous crafts has indeed, facilitated many workshops as a lead consultant, and is also credited with a number of research publications and workshop paper presentations in the area of art, having supervised a number of students’ research papers at Post-graduate and undergraduate. The primary objective of all his research works is to solving extensively some of the technical problems that hinder the development of indigenous art industries and how these can be applied to empower individuals for sustainable living and national development. Professor John Osei Bobie Boahin is a community development oriented person whose dedication in his training activities for Local Master-Craftsmen and promotion of social intervention programmes has, among others things, resulted in his appointment as Chairman, Suame Town Council, Board Chairman, Manhyia Mutual Health Insurance, Manhyia  and as Municipal Chief Executive of Suame Municipal Assembly, Suame. Contact Number: 0244751678/0207733075; Email:jobboahin.cass@knust.edu.gh / jboahin@gmail.com   Prof. John Osei Bobie Boahin is an Associate Professor in Faculty of Art, Department of Industrial Art, born in Kumasi Ghana on 1st January 1957. He has worked as a Senior Lecturer and Head of the Department of Integrated Rural Art and Industry, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi. He is a Leather Technologist, Art Educationist and a Researcher with the following qualifications to his credit; Teacher Certificate ‘A’, Bachelor of Arts, Post-Graduate Diploma in Art Education, Master     of Philosophy (Art Education). Doctor of Philosophy (Art Education).He has more than 30 years’ experience as a professional teacher/lecturer at the second cycle and tertiary levels of education, with extensive experience as trainer of trainees and a master craftsman, working variously as a designer and manufacturer in Leatherwork, Picture Making, Fabric Printing, Woodwork, Bamboo, Raffia and Calabash art. His work as a researcher in indigenous crafts has indeed, facilitated many workshops as a lead consultant, and is also credited with a number of research publications and workshop paper presentations in the area of art, having supervised a number of students’ research papers at Post-graduate and undergraduate. The primary objective of all his research works is to solving extensively some of the technical problems that hinder the development of indigenous art industries and how these can be applied to empower individuals for sustainable living and national development. Professor John Osei Bobie Boahin is a community development oriented person whose dedication in his training activities for Local Master-Craftsmen and promotion of social intervention programmes has, among others things, resulted in his appointment as Chairman, Suame Town Council, Board Chairman, Manhyia Mutual Health Insurance, Manhyia  and as Municipal Chief Executive of Suame Municipal Assembly, Suame. Contact Number: 0244751678/0207733075; Email:jobboahin.cass@knust.edu.gh / jboahin@gmail.com  Prof. John Osei Bobie Boahin is an Associate Professor in Faculty of Art, Department of Industrial Art, born in Kumasi Ghana on 1st January 1957. He has worked as a Senior Lecturer and Head of the Department of Integrated Rural Art and Industry, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi. He is a Leather Technologist, Art Educationist and a Researcher with the following qualifications to his credit; Teacher Certificate ‘A’, Bachelor of Arts, Post-Graduate Diploma in Art Education, Master of Philosophy (Art Education). Doctor of Philosophy (Art Education). He has more than 30 years’ experience as a professional teacher/lecturer at the second cycle and tertiary levels of education, with extensive experience as trainer of trainees and a master craftsman, working variously as a designer and manufacturer in Leatherwork, Picture Making, Fabric Printing, Woodwork, Bamboo, Raffia and Calabash art. His work as a researcher in indigenous crafts has indeed, facilitated many workshops as a lead consultant, and is also credited with a number of research publications and workshop paper presentations in the area of art, having supervised a number of students’ research papers at Post-graduate and undergraduate.The primary objective of all his research works is to solving extensively some of the technical problems that hinder the development of indigenous art industries and how these can be applied to empower individuals for sustainable living and national development.Professor John Osei Bobie Boahin is a community development oriented person whose dedication in his training activities for Local Master-Craftsmen and promotion of social intervention programmes has, among others things, resulted in his appointment as Chairman, Suame Town Council, Board Chairman, Manhyia Mutual Health Insurance, Manhyia and as Municipal Chief Executive of Suame Municipal Assembly, Suame.Contact Number: 0244751678/0207733075; Email:jobboahin.cass@knust.edu.gh / jboahin@gmail.comProf. John Osei Bobie Boahin is an Associate Professor in Faculty of Art, Department of Industrial Art, born in Kumasi Ghana on 1st January 1957. He has worked as a Senior Lecturer and Head of the Department of Integrated Rural Art and Industry, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi. He is a Leather Technologist, Art Educationist and a Researcher with the following qualifications to his credit; Teacher Certificate ‘A’, Bachelor of Arts, Post-Graduate Diploma in Art Education, Master of Philosophy (Art Education). Doctor of Philosophy (Art Education). He has more than 30 years’ experience as a professional teacher/lecturer at the second cycle and tertiary levels of education, with extensive experience as trainer of trainees and a master craftsman, working variously as a designer and manufacturer in Leatherwork, Picture Making, Fabric Printing, Woodwork, Bamboo, Raffia and Calabash art. His work as a researcher in indigenous crafts has indeed, facilitated many workshops as a lead consultant, and is also credited with a number of research publications and workshop paper presentations in the area of art, having supervised a number of students’ research papers at Post-graduate and undergraduate.The primary objective of all his research works is to solving extensively some of the technical problems that hinder the development of indigenous art industries and how these can be applied to empower individuals for sustainable living and national development.Professor John Osei Bobie Boahin is a community development oriented person whose dedication in his training activities for Local Master-Craftsmen and promotion of social intervention programmes has, among others things, resulted in his appointment as Chairman, Suame Town Council, Board Chairman, Manhyia Mutual Health Insurance, Manhyia and as Municipal Chief Executive of Suame Municipal Assembly, Suame.Contact Number: 0244751678/0207733075; Email:jobboahin.cass@knust.edu.gh / jboahin@gmail.com Prof. John Osei Bobie Boahin is an Associate Professor in Faculty of Art, Department of Industrial Art, born in Kumasi Ghana on 1st January 1957. He has worked as a Senior Lecturer and Head of the Department of Integrated Rural Art and Industry, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi. He is a Leather Technologist, Art Educationist and a Researcher with the following qualifications to his credit; Teacher Certificate ‘A’, Bachelor of Arts, Post-Graduate Diploma in Art Education, Master     of Philosophy (Art Education). Doctor of Philosophy (Art Education).He has more than 30 years’ experience as a professional teacher/lecturer at the second cycle and tertiary levels of education, with extensive experience as trainer of trainees and a master craftsman, working variously as a designer and manufacturer in Leatherwork, Picture Making, Fabric Printing, Woodwork, Bamboo, Raffia and Calabash art. His work as a researcher in indigenous crafts has indeed, facilitated many workshops as a lead consultant, and is also credited with a number of research publications and workshop paper presentations in the area of art, having supervised a number of students’ research papers at Post-graduate and undergraduate. The primary objective of all his research works is to solving extensively some of the technical problems that hinder the development of indigenous art industries and how these can be applied to empower individuals for sustainable living and national development. Professor John Osei Bobie Boahin is a community development oriented person whose dedication in his training activities for Local Master-Craftsmen and promotion of social intervention programmes has, among others things, resulted in his appointment as Chairman, Suame Town Council, Board Chairman, Manhyia Mutual Health Insurance, Manhyia  and as Municipal Chief Executive of Suame Municipal Assembly, Suame. Contact Number: 0244751678/0207733075; Email:jobboahin.cass@knust.edu.gh / jboahin@gmail.com  Prof. John Osei Bobie Boahin is an Associate Professor in Faculty of Art, Department of Industrial Art, born in Kumasi Ghana on 1st January 1957. He has worked as a Senior Lecturer and Head of the Department of Integrated Rural Art and Industry, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi. He is a Leather Technologist, Art Educationist and a Researcher with the following qualifications to his credit; Teacher Certificate ‘A’, Bachelor of Arts, Post-Graduate Diploma in Art Education, Master of Philosophy (Art Education). Doctor of Philosophy (Art Education). He has more than 30 years’ experience as a professional teacher/lecturer at the second cycle and tertiary levels of education, with extensive experience as trainer of trainees and a master craftsman, working variously as a designer and manufacturer in Leatherwork, Picture Making, Fabric Printing, Woodwork, Bamboo, Raffia and Calabash art. His work as a researcher in indigenous crafts has indeed, facilitated many workshops as a lead consultant, and is also credited with a number of research publications and workshop paper presentations in the area of art, having supervised a number of students’ research papers at Post-graduate and undergraduate.The primary objective of all his research works is to solving extensively some of the technical problems that hinder the development of indigenous art industries and how these can be applied to empower individuals for sustainable living and national development.Professor John Osei Bobie Boahin is a community development oriented person whose dedication in his training activities for Local Master-Craftsmen and promotion of social intervention programmes has, among others things, resulted in his appointment as Chairman, Suame Town Council, Board Chairman, Manhyia Mutual Health Insurance, Manhyia and as Municipal Chief Executive of Suame Municipal Assembly, Suame.Contact Number: 0244751678/0207733075; Email:jobboahin.cass@knust.edu.gh / jboahin@gmail.comProf. John Osei Bobie Boahin is an Associate Professor in Faculty of Art, Department of Industrial Art, born in Kumasi Ghana on 1st January 1957. He has worked as a Senior Lecturer and Head of the Department of Integrated Rural Art and Industry, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi. He is a Leather Technologist, Art Educationist and a Researcher with the following qualifications to his credit; Teacher Certificate ‘A’, Bachelor of Arts, Post-Graduate Diploma in Art Education, Master of Philosophy (Art Education). Doctor of Philosophy (Art Education). He has more than 30 years’ experience as a professional teacher/lecturer at the second cycle and tertiary levels of education, with extensive experience as trainer of trainees and a master craftsman, working variously as a designer and manufacturer in Leatherwork, Picture Making, Fabric Printing, Woodwork, Bamboo, Raffia and Calabash art. His work as a researcher in indigenous crafts has indeed, facilitated many workshops as a lead consultant, and is also credited with a number of research publications and workshop paper presentations in the area of art, having supervised a number of students’ research papers at Post-graduate and undergraduate.The primary objective of all his research works is to solving extensively some of the technical problems that hinder the development of indigenous art industries and how these can be applied to empower individuals for sustainable living and national development.Professor John Osei Bobie Boahin is a community development oriented person whose dedication in his training activities for Local Master-Craftsmen and promotion of social intervention programmes has, among others things, resulted in his appointment as Chairman, Suame Town Council, Board Chairman, Manhyia Mutual Health Insurance, Manhyia and as Municipal Chief Executive of Suame Municipal Assembly, Suame.Contact Number: 0244751678/0207733075; Email:jobboahin.cass@knust.edu.gh / jboahin@gmail.com

Key Research Themes (8)
Social Sciences

Ancient Egypt and Archaeology

Physical Sciences

Architecture and Computational Design

Social Sciences

Business Strategies and Management Research

Physical Sciences

Collagen: Extraction and Characterization

Life Sciences

Culinary Culture and Tourism

Social Sciences

Global Maritime and Colonial Histories

Social Sciences

Global Trade and Competitiveness

Physical Sciences

Manufacturing Process and Optimization

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