Dr. Kofi Takyi Asante

Position:
Research Fellow

Email:
ktasante@ug.edu.gh

Kofi Takyi Asante is a Research Fellow at the Institute of Statistical, Social and Economic Research at the University of Ghana. His research lies at the intersection of political, economic, and historical sociology. His substantive research areas include sociology of development, corruption, state formation, and citizenship. His publications have appeared in Studies in Ethnicity and Nationalism, African Economic History, Ghana Studies, and International Journal of Politics, Culture, and Society, among others. He studied at the University of Ghana, the London School of Economics and Political Science, and Northwestern University. Before joining ISSER, he was a postdoctoral fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study in Toulouse (IAST).

Sociology of the state
Sociology of colonialism
Citizenship
Corruption
Political economy of development
Economic sociology

Journal articles

Asante, K. T. (2020). Individualistic and Collectivistic Orientations: Examining the Relationship between Ethnicity and National Attachment in Ghana. Studies in Ethnicity and Nationalism, 20(1), 2-24.

Asante, K. T. (2020). Imagining Citizenship and Belonging in Ghana. Development, 63(1), 90-94.

Asante, K. T. (2020). Nested Patriotism: Revisiting Collaboration, Resistance and Agency in Colonial Ghana. International Journal of Politics, Culture, and Society, 33(3), 347-364.

Asante, Kofi Takyi. (2018). ‘“Intimate Knowledge of the Country”: Factions and Struggles for Administrative Control in the Early Gold Coast Government’, African Economic History, 46(2): 63-92

Asante, Kofi Takyi. (2018). ‘Strategic Coethnicity: Social Capital and Entrepreneurial Strategies of Two Ghanaian Migrant Businesses’, Journal of Enterprising Communities, 12(4): 418-436

Anyidoho, Nana Akua and Kofi Takyi Asante. (2008). ‘Truly National? Social Exclusion and the Ghana@50 Celebrations,’ Ghana Studies, 11: 139-173.

Book Chapters

Darku, Esther Naa Dodua and Kofi Takyi Asante. (Forthcoming). ‘Social Belonging and Inclusion’, in FES/CPR (eds), Ghana Youth Study, Accra: FES/CPR.

Asante, K. T. (2020). Political Identity in a Postcolony: Citizenship, Belonging, and Nation-Building in Ghana. In Political Identity and Democratic Citizenship in Turbulent Times (pp. 113-128). IGI Global.

Asante, Kofi Takyi and Moses Khisa. (2019). ‘Political Corruption and the Limits of Anti-corruption Activism in Ghana’, in Inge Amusden (ed), Political Corruption and Development: Extraction, Power Preservation and Donor Responses, Cheltenham and Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar.

Asante, Kofi Takyi. (2015). ‘National Movements in Colonial Africa’, in Ewout Frankema and Ellen Hilbom (eds.), The History of African Development, African Economic History Network: 1-17.

Working Papers and Technical Publications

Dzanku, F. M., Asante, K. T., Quarmine, W., & Hodey, L. S. (2020). Smallholder Farmers’ Choice of Oil Palm Commercialisation Model and Household Welfare in South-western Ghana. APRA Working Paper (forthcoming), Brighton: Future Agricultures Consortium.

Asante, K. T. (2018). ‘“Professional sentimentalists”: Internecine conflicts in the emergent Gold Coast’. PAS Working Paper Number 26, Evanston: Program of African Studies

Period	Employing organization:	Project	Role
August 2020 – July 2021	International Growth Centre	Improving Labour Market Efficiency	Co-Investigator
August 2020 – December 2020	International Growth Centre	Mitigating the Impact of Covid-19 on Ghanaian Firms	Co-Investigator
January 2020 – March 2020	Volontarito Internazionale per lo (VIS) and Don Bosco of Ghana	Ghana! Supporting Local Development, tackling Irregular Migration from West Africa	Co-Investigator
March 2019 – present	Agricultural Policy Research in Africa (APRA) consortium – IDS (University of Sussex)	Oil Palm Commercialisation in Ghana’s Western Region [Ghana Workstream 1]	Lead qualitative researcher for Ghana WS1
May 2019 – July 2019	Campaign for Female Education – Mastercard Scholars’ Programme	The Role of Volunteering in Developing Transformational Leadership Qualities and Employability among Students	Co-Principal Investigator
January 2019 – present	Open Government Partnership	Assessing the Extent of Implementation of Local Action Plan by the Sekondi-Takoradi Metropolitan Assembly	Principal Investigator