Daniel Owusu-Ansah
The researcher’s work integrates mining, pharmacy, anthropology, and African studies to examine the intersections of social responsibility, corporate behavior in mining, cultural practices involving health-related issues, historical contexts, and policy making within specific communities like Ghana. Their focus is on exploring how these integrated fields reveal the complex interplay between individual cases, systemic challenges, and broader societal implications, offering a holistic analysis that bridges mining resource management with broader social, cultural, and historical contexts.
Faculty Biography
Dr. Daniel Owusu-Ansah is a social and political historian. He is a lecturer at the Department of History and Political Studies. He was initially employed as a full-time teaching assistant and later as demonstrator after he had served as a teaching assistant for his mandatory national service in the Department of General and African Studies. He has interest in social and political history of Ghana with special emphasis on sports history. He is a contemporary historian who believes that sports must not be seen only as a physical activity but should also be used as a tool for development. He has developed and taught several courses in the Department of History and Political Studies including History of Sports and Development in Ghana, Introduction to Historical Studies, Contemporary Problems in African History, History of Ghana, Intellectual History, Africa in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, History of Pan-Africanism and Sports, Fashion and Leisure in Asante History. He is a member of the Historical Society of Ghana, Ghana Studies Association, a public intellectual and the Chairman of the Governing Board of Directors for Ghana Publishing Company Limited.
African cultural and philosophical studies
Anthropological Studies and Insights
Mining and Resource Management
Pharmacy and Medical Practices
ILLICIT DRUG USE AND TRADE: AN ETHNOGRAPHIC STUDY OF KUMASE (2000–2018)
Open AccessHistory's Role in Policy Making: Proffering Solutions and Questions for Humanity and the Ghanaian Context
Open AccessCorporate Social Responsibility of Mining Companies in Ghana: The case of Newmont Ghana Gold Limited at Ahafo
Open AccessA Historical narrative of the British Colonial Administration's Clamp down on Witch finding Shrines amongst the Asante People of the Gold Coast
Open AccessDepartment of History & Political Studies
Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology