Speaker: ATO QUAYSON, Professor, English & Director, Centre for Diaspora and Transnational Studies, University of Toronto Sponsors: Center for African Studies, Department of African American Studies, Institute for the Study of Social Change, Center for Race and Gender

The project is interdisciplinary, taking in insights from urban studies, anthropology, history, and political science among others. It is a mixture between a personal memoir and a biography of the city of Accra from the focal point of “Oxford Street”, perhaps the most globalized street in the country.