Alexander Kwapong

Alexander Adum Kwapong
FGA
Vice-Chancellor of the University of Ghana
In office
1966–1975
Preceded byConor Cruise O'Brien
Succeeded byDaniel Adzei Bekoe
Personal details
BornAlexander Adum Kwapong
(1927-03-08)8 March 1927
Gold Coast
Died9 August 2014(2014-08-09) (aged 87)
Accra, Ghana
OccupationAcademic
Academic background
Education
Academic work
DisciplineClassics
InstitutionsUniversity of Ghana

Alexander Adum Kwapong, FGA (8 March 1927 – 9 August 2014) 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. 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.

References

  1. ↑ Kwapong, Alexander A. (1979). Higher Education and Development in Africa Today: A Reappraisal. Ghana Academy of Arts and Sciences.
  2. ↑ "Prof Alexander Kwapong passes away". Daily Graphic. Accra, Ghana. 2014-08-14. Archived from the original on 26 August 2014. Retrieved 22 August 2014.
  3. ↑ Barbara Goff, Decolonizing Classics in Africa: the work of Alexander Kwapong, Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies, Volume 65, Issue 1, June 2022, Pages 32–41, https://doi.org/10.1093/bics/qbac006