Dr. Emmanuel Saboro is a senior lecturer at the Centre for African and International Studies, University of Cape Coast, Ghana and a fellow of the American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS), African Humanities Program (F’17). He is an interdisciplinary scholar with research interests centred on the interface between Literature/Folklore and Oral History. Specifically, he has been interested in the impact of the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade on Africa, late 19^th and 20^th Century Abolitionism and Anti-Slavery Discourses, 19th Century Internal Slave trafficking in Africa in general and Northern Ghana, in particular. Most recently, his research has focused on Memory, Trauma, Resistance and Identity Construction in Northern Ghana. An integral feature of his research has involved the expansion of the methodological tools scholars can use to uncover the histories of those time periods and areas of the world in which written sources are often scarce and inaccessible. Dr. Saboro has particularly been interested in applying historical, cultural and literary methodologies to the historical study of indigenous cultures in Africa. He has within the past 15 years through ethnographic fieldwork collected and interpreted oral traditions, songs and oral histories, on slavery, its legacies and afterlives across some Ghanaian communities. He has complemented this complex nuanced data with close literary reading techniques and contextual analyses, as well as insights from cultural anthropology to develop rich histories and narratives of the slave experience within the context of Ghana and West Africa.

He is the Author of Wounds of Our Past: Remembering Enslavement in African Oral Narratives. Brill: Leiden and Boston