Akwasi Bretuo Assensoh
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Akwasi Bretuo Assensoh is a Ghanaian academic and journalist. He is an emeritus professor of African American and African Diaspora Studies at Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana.[1][2]
Assensoh was born on 1 April 1946 at Dunkwa-On-Offin, Gold Coast to Opanin Kwabena and Abena Amoateng.[3][4] He moved to the United States of America in 1978.[4] He obtained his bachelor's degree in History and Politics from Dillard University in 1981.[2][4] In 1982, he was awarded his master's degree by the New York University and his doctorate degree in 1984 by the same university.[2][4]
Career
Assensoh begun as an assistant editor for the Daily Listener, Chronicle, and Digest in Monrovia, Liberia.[4] In 1968, he was promoted to editor, and a year later he was made sub editor of The Pioneer, a newspaper in Kumasi, Ghana. From 1970 to 1972, Assensoh worked as a syndicated columnist for Compass News Features in Luxembourg.
After his completing his doctoral research in 1984, Assensoh was appointed associate professor of History at Dillard University.[4] He worked in this capacity from 1984 to 1988, and in 1986, he doubled as Director of honors programs.[4] He became the assistant editor of King Papers Project and a visiting assistant professor of History at Stanford University in 1988.[4]