Name: Conference in Honour of Scholars in Language and Literary Studies organized by the Department of English, University of Cape Coast, Cape Coast, Ghana.
Start: 2022-09-09
Location: University of Cape Coast

About

Dr. Christabel Aba Sam holds a PhD in Literary Studies, MPhil in English and a Bachelor of Education (English option) degrees from the University of Cape Coast where she currently works as a Lecturer in the Department of English. Her current research interests include African Women's Writers, Masculinity Studies, Postcolonial Futures and Spatial Politics. Dr. Aba Sam is a fellow of the African Multiple Cluster of Excellence at the Institute of African and Diaspora Studies (IADS), University of Lagos, Nigeria and the Bayreuth Academy of Advanced African Studies, University of Bayreuth, Germany. Dr. Sam has sole authored and co-authored publications in Scopus/Web of Science and other reputable outlets. She teaches Gender and Writing, Principles of Prose Fiction, Studies in Literature and Society, Research Methods and The Novel in Africa to undergraduate and graduate students.

Focus & expertise

Specializations

African Literature Gender And Sexuality Masculinity Postcoloniality

Academic interests · number = colleagues who share it

African Literature3 Gender Studies5 Postcolonial Literature2 Women Writers2

Recent activity

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Fellowship Jan 2023

Fellow

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Conference Sep 2022

Conference in Honour of Scholars in Language and Literary Studies organized by the Department of English, University of Cape Coast, Cape Coast, Ghana.

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Fellowship Jan 2022

Fellow

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Conference Apr 2019

The Beautyful Ones Are Not Yet Born @ 50 International Conference organized by the Department of English, University of Cape Coast, Cape Coast, Ghana

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Conference Mar 2019

at the Attah-Gyamfi Britwum Conference organized by the Department of French, University of Cape Coast, Cape Coast, Ghana.

Background

🎓 Education & qualifications

Doctor of Philosophy in Literature in English

University of Cape Coast

2018

Master of Philosophy in English

University of Cape Coast

2013

Bachelor of Education in English

University of Cape Coast

2009

Teaching & projects

I believe that a teacher is morally obligated to enter the classroom with only the highest of expectations for each and every one of her students. Thus, the teacher maximizes the positive benefits that naturally come along with any self-fulfilling prophecy. With dedication, perseverance, and hard work, her students will rise to the occasion. I aim to bring an open mind, a positive attitude, and high expectations to the classroom each day. I believe that I owe it to my students, as well as the community, to bring consistency, diligence, and warmth to my job in the hope that I can ultimately inspire and encourage such traits in the students as well.

Teaching philosophy

Publications 18 works

ORCID 0000-0002-7926-0395 →

2026

Re-defining Ghanaian hiplife songs by women as liberatory narratives

Hannah Woode Amissah-Arthur, Theresah Patrine Ennin, Christabel Aba Sam

Tydskrif vir letterkunde · Article · 1 citation · Source: OpenAlex

2025

Narrating humanity to the African child: Deconstructing the hero figure in Naana J.E.S. Opoku-Agyemang’s Who Told the Most Incredible Stories (Vols 1-5)

Christabel Aba Sam

Contemporary Journal of African Studies · Article · 1 citation · Source: OpenAlex

Gendering Leadership, Mediating Feminist Political Futures

Christabel Aba Sam

UJ Press eBooks · Book-chapter · Source: OpenAlex

Masculinity, traumatic memories and futurity: an engagement with Nii Ayikwei Parkes’ Tail of the Blue Bird

Christabel Aba Sam

Journal of the African Literature Association · Article · Source: OpenAlex + ORCID

2024

Gendering visions of the postcolonial modernist state through names: a literary onomastic analysis of Nii Ayikwei Parkes’s Tail of the Blue Bird (2009)

Emmanuel Mensah Bonsu, Rogers Asempasah, Christabel Aba Sam

Critical African Studies · Article · 2 citations · Source: OpenAlex + ORCID

2023

Becoming conscious of the self: Spatial dynamics, character pairs and the feminist vision in Amma Darko’s beyond the horizon

Christabel Aba Sam

Drumspeak International Journal of Research in the Humanities · Article · 1 citation · Source: OpenAlex

Narrative as a Symbolic Social Act: Sexual Bribery and the Pragmatics of Resolution in J. M. Coetzee’s Disgrace and Kunle Afolayan’s Citation

Christabel Aba Sam

International Journal of Current Research in the Humanities · Article · 1 citation · Source: OpenAlex

2022

A postcolonial ecocritical reading of Yaa Gyasi’s Homegoing (2016) and Kwakuvi Azasu’s The Slave Raiders (2004)

Rogers Asempasah, Christabel Aba Sam, Bertrand Azagsizua Abelumkemah

Cogent Arts and Humanities · Article · 12 citations · Source: OpenAlex

A POSTCOLONIAL FEMINIST READING OF J. M. COETZEE’S WAITING FOR THE BARBARIANS (2000)

Christabel Aba Sam, Emmanuel Mensah Bonsu

International Journal of Humanity Studies (IJHS) · Article · 3 citations · Source: OpenAlex

Intimations of Futurity: Masculinities, Traumatic Memories and Spatial Dynamics in Adichie’s Purple Hibiscus (2004)

Christabel Aba Sam, Emmanuel Saboro

Journal of African Languages and Literary Studies · Article · 1 citation · Source: OpenAlex

2021

Villains, victims and victors: A character analysis of Amma Darko’s women

Christabel Aba Sam

Drumspeak International Journal of Research in the Humanities · Article · 3 citations · Source: OpenAlex

Disrupting Hegemony, Anticipating the Future: A Nietzschean Reading of God Dies by the Nile and Purple Hibiscus

Rogers Asempasah, Christabel Aba Sam

International Journal of Comparative Literature and Translation Studies · Article · Source: OpenAlex

Evidences of our inhumanity: Representations of evil and the quest for postcolonial healing in Tadjo’s The Shadows of Imana: Travels in the heart of Rwanda

Christabel Aba Sam, Samuel Kwesi Nkansah

Asεmka A Bilingual Literary Journal of University of Cape Coast · Article · Source: OpenAlex

Futuring Africa: Immature Men and the Utility of Hope in Armah’s The Beautyful Ones Are Not Yet Born

Christabel Aba Sam

KENTE - Cape Coast Journal of Literature and the Arts · Article · Source: OpenAlex

2020

Decolonizing the Postcolony: Of Men, Spatial Politics and the New Nation in wa Thiongo‟s Wizard of the Crow

Christabel Aba Sam

Asεmka A Bilingual Literary Journal of University of Cape Coast · Article · 1 citation · Source: OpenAlex

2019

The Making of the New Man in Contemporary African Fiction: A Reading of J.M. Coetzee’s Disgrace

Christabel Aba Sam

KENTE - Cape Coast Journal of Literature and the Arts · Article · 1 citation · Source: OpenAlex

A MORE PERFECT (NFL PLAYERS) UNION: SECRET "SIDE DEALS," THE NFLPA, AND THE DUTY OF FAIR REPRESENTATION

Joshua Ehrlich, Christabel Aba Sam

Ohio Northern University Law Review · Article · Source: OpenAlex

2016

Reconstituting the Self: of Names, Discourses and Agency in Amma Darko's Beyond the Horizon

Rogers Asempasah, Christabel Aba Sam

HAL (Le Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe) · Article · 9 citations · Source: OpenAlex

OpenAlex updated 20 Sep 2026

Engagements

📅 Conferences attended

2022 Conference in Honour of Scholars in Language and Literary Studies organized by the Department of English, University of Cape Coast, Cape Coast, Ghana. Paper presenter · University of Cape Coast

2019 The Beautyful Ones Are Not Yet Born @ 50 International Conference organized by the Department of English, University of Cape Coast, Cape Coast, Ghana Paper presenter · University of Cape Coast, Cape Coast, Ghana

2019 at the Attah-Gyamfi Britwum Conference organized by the Department of French, University of Cape Coast, Cape Coast, Ghana. Paper presenter · University of Cape Coast, Cape Coast, Ghana

2016 the 2nd University of Cape Coast, Faculty of Arts Colloquium on Arts and Indigenous Health. Paper presenter · University of Cape Coast, Cape Coast, Ghana