Kwabena Agyare Yeboah

Kwabena Agyare Yeboah

Kwabena Agyare Yeboah is a social historian whose wide range of interests include African history, the history of public health & medicine, and public/ digital history. At UCSB, he studies the framing of HIV/AIDS in Ghana and its interface with the siting of the Akosombo dam (Volta River Project), ethnocentrism, women’s history, commercial sex work, transnational sexual networks, and the misuse of statistics in quantitative epidemiology.

Prior to joining the Department of History at UCSB, Kwabena worked as a curator at Nubuke Foundation, where he was responsible for exhibition making and programming as well as managing special projects like Artist Development Programmes and grantmaking.

Visit his website: kwabena.substack.com

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