African American Studies
Dr. Botchway teaches courses on African politics and government, African history, Africana Social and Political Thought and Pan-Africanism.
Selected Publications:
- Paradox of Empowerment: Reflections on a Case Study from Northern Ghana, World Development Vol. 29, #1, 2001
- Are Development Planners Afraid of History and Contextualization? Notes on Reading a Development Report on Northern Ghana, Canadian Journal of African Studies, Volume 35, #1, 2001
- Understanding “Development” Interventions in Northern Ghana, Edwin Mellen Press, Lewiston, NY, 2004
- The Politics and Apolitics of Development: The Case of Development Project in Northern Ghana, in Kwadwo Konadu-Agyemang and Kwamina Panford (eds.) Africa’s Development in the Twenty-first Century, Ashgate Publishing Company, Burlington, VT, 2006
- (With Jamee Moudud) Challenging the Orthodoxy: African Development in the Age of Openness, African and Asian Studies, Volume 6, #4, 2007
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Dr Botchway is a member of the African Studies Association, American Political Science Association, and The Academy of Political Science.
Dissertation:
- Interrogating "Development" In Ghana: The Case Of The Northern Region Rural Integrated Program (NORRIP), Department of Political Science, Graduate Faculty of Political Social and Science, New School For Social Research, NY, 1998.
Dr Botchway is a member of the African Studies Association, American Political Science Association, and The Academy of Political Science. Before his appointment at NYCCT, Dr. Botchway taught courses on politics and African history at Kean University of New Jersey, SUNY, Stony Brook, Sarah Lawrence College, and Eugene Lang College, New School For Social Research, NY.
Degrees:
- PhD, Political Science and International Relations
- The Graduate Faculty of Political and Social Science
- The New School For Social Research, NY
- MA, Political Science and International Relations
- The Graduate Faculty of Political and Social Science
- The New School For Social Research, NY
- BA (Honors), Sociology with Political Science
- University of Ghana, Legon
