Gariba Abdul-Korah

Gariba Abdul-Korah Born and raised in the Upper West Region of Ghana, Gariba Abdul-Korah entered the University of Ghana, Legon in 1987 where he pursued a combined bachelor's degree in History and Archaeology. He graduated in 1990 and served as a Teaching/Research Assistant with the Department of History at Legon for two years. During the period, he pursued a program leading to the award of a Graduate Diploma degree in Library and Archival Studies at the same University. He also received a Master's in African History from the University of Tromso, Norway. During the course of his academic career, he wrote two dissertations entitled: "The Evolution of Co-operative Credit Unions and their Impact in the Wa District" and "An Evaluation of the Records Management Practices in the University of Ghana: A Case Study of the Department of History". Gariba is currently a MacArthur Scholar and a Ph.D. candidate in West African History at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities Campus. While his academic interests focus broadly on issues such as migration, gender and the family economy, identity politics and development in the Third World, he is currently engaged in a research project on "Migration, Ethnicity and Uneven-development in Ghana, 1887 to the Present".