Bright Gyamfi, Ph.D.

You can read my latest article, "From Nkrumah’s Black Star to the African Diaspora: Ghanaian Intellectual Activists and the Development of Black Studies in the Americas," in @JAAHistory Grateful to editors @KeishaBlain and @QuitoSwan for their insightful and invaluable comments.

I'm honored to announce that I will be giving Grenada's 2025 Annual Commemorative Emancipation Public Education Lecture tomorrow. Join us if possible! See registration below: us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regist…

I am thrilled to announce that I will be joining the @RUHistoryDept as an Assistant Professor this fall.

read “Hallelujah Boys” by Brian Gyamfi. tell a friend to tell a friend. nentajournal.com/hallelujahboys

Kingdom is now available for preorders. I'm endlessly grateful, and still a little stunned. debutiful.net/2025/05/06/787…

Congratulations to former Kellogg ISP Bright Gyamfi '16, assistant professor of history at UC San Diego, who has received a National Endowment for the Humanities Grant! His project, “Embers of Pan-Africanism: Nkrumahist Intellectuals and Decolonization, 1960–1980,” looks…

Feeling blessed to announce KINGDOM is forthcoming with upitt press. Endless gratitude to the people who have carried me here.

**Today,** from noon-1pm (PST), UW African Studies hosts Bright Gyamfi @Gyamfi_PhD for his virtual lecture “Embers of Pan-Africanism: Nkrumahist Intellectuals and Decolonization, 1960-1980.” Registration link is below, hope you can make it! Link: jsis.washington.edu/africa/events/…

I'm excited to announce that I received the prestigious @NEHgov fellowship. This funding will allow me to focus on completing my first book project. Congratulations to my little brother, @brian_gyamfi, who received the prestigious @NEAarts Fellowship. #AfricanHistory

Next Wednesday, UW African Studies will host Bright Gyamfi @Gyamfi_PhD @UCSanDiego for a virtual lecture entitled “Embers of Pan-Africanism: Nkrumahist Intellectuals and Decolonization, 1960-1980.” Registration link is below, hope you can make it! Link: jsis.washington.edu/africa/events/…

Congratulations bro! I’m so so proud of you

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I'm giving a talk on Monday at the Center for African Studies @UCBerkeley. If you are in the area, please come. events.berkeley.edu/asc/event/2423…

✨I’m so excited about this new journal on the study of global Black thought. Thrilled to have the opportunity to collaborate with my dear friends at @AAIHS & @PennPress! More details coming soon, including CFPs for two forthcoming issues! 🙌🏾

Come through if you happen to be in the area! @UCSanDiego

Excellent work, my friend.

"By writing I can live in ways that I could not survive" //Louise Erdrich Honored to have "Dirt" featured on @NarrativeMag. A massive thanks to the editors. narri.tv/3tduSUU

The Department of Africana Studies / Rites and Reason Theatre invites our campus and extended community to join us online today to remember Anani Dzidzienyo on the third anniversary of his passing. To revisit his memorial wall; sites.google.com/brown.edu/anan…

Your legacy lives on, Uncle Anani!

My department is hiring two historians: Assistant Professor: South Asian History: apol-recruit.ucsd.edu/JPF03766; and Assistant Professor: History of the Long Nineteenth Century of Latin America (excluding Mexico and Brazil): apol-recruit.ucsd.edu/JPF03757.

It is one of the great honors of my career to be invited to deliver the keynote address at the @HaitianStudies conference. 🇭🇹 I’m gonna bring my best! 🙏🏾 @RUHistoryDept