Alexander Kwapong
Ghanaian academic and university administrator
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Alexander Adum Kwapong, FGA (born 8 March 1927 – 9 August 2014)[1] was a Ghanaian classicist. He was Vice Chancellor of the University of Ghana from 1966 to 1975, a position which he was the first Ghanaian to hold.[2] Much of Kwapong's research was on the history of Africa in Greco-Roman times, including his Cambridge doctoral dissertation about the relations between locals and colonists in ancient Libya.[3]
Preceded byConor Cruise O'Brien
Succeeded byDaniel Adzei Bekoe
BornAlexander Adum Kwapong
8 March 1927
8 March 1927
Died9 August 2014 (aged 87)
Accra, Ghana
Alexander Adum Kwapong | |
|---|---|
| Vice-Chancellor of the University of Ghana | |
| In office 1966–1975 | |
| Preceded by | Conor Cruise O'Brien |
| Succeeded by | Daniel Adzei Bekoe |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Alexander Adum Kwapong 8 March 1927 |
| Died | 9 August 2014 (aged 87) Accra, Ghana |
| Occupation | Academic |
| Academic background | |
| Alma mater | |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | Classics |
| Institutions | University of Ghana |
