Albert Adu Boahen

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Albert Adu Boahen (May 24, 1932 – May 24, 2006), born Albert Kwadzo Adu Boahen, was a Ghanaian academic, historian, and politician. He was the first Ghanaian to receive a Ph.D in African history from the School of Oriental and African Studies.^[1] He was the New Patriotic Party's nominee in the 1992 Presidential election. He lost, but received 30.4% of the vote.

In 2006 he was posthumously awarded the "Order of the Star of Ghana."^[2]

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• Britain, the Sahara and the Western Sudan 1788-1861. London - Oxford 1964 (Boahen's Dissertation)
• Topics in West African History. Harlow – London 1966
• Ghana: Evolution and Change in the 19th and 20th Centuries. London 1975.
• The Revolutionary Years: West Africa Since 1800 Accra - London 1975
• „Politics in Ghana, 1800-1874“, in, J. F. Ade Ajayi u. Michael Crowder History of West Africa. London 1977 (3. Aufl.), Bd. 2, S. 167-260.
• African Perspectives ofn Colonialism. Baltimore 1987.
• The Ghanaian Sphinx: Reflections on the Contemporary History of Ghana, 1972 - 1987. - Accra 1989
• Mfantsipim and the making of Ghana: A Centenary History, 1876 - 1976. - Accra 1996
• Yaa Asantewaa and the Asante – British War of 1900-1. Accra 2003.
• Africa in the Twentieth Century: The Adu Boahen Reader. Trenton N. J. 2005.
• Albert Adu Boahen (with Beiträgen von J. B Webster u. M. Tidy), The Revolutionary Years: West Africa since 1800. London 1980

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