Dr. Madinatu Bello

Madinatu Bello attended the University of Cape Coast for her first and terminal degrees and University of Ghana for her second degree. Since 2013, she has been teaching at the University of Cape Coast, Department of Theatre and Film Studies, as a Lecturer in African Performance Theories, History of Theatre and Performing Arts Management. She has completed her PhD studies in Music Education at the University of Cape Coast after researching into the cultural and creative industries and their connections with performing arts departments in universities in Ghana. This appears to be a new research area that interests her so much. She was a recipient of a scholarship for her doctoral studies from the DAAD Graduate School. Performing Sustainability, Cultures and Development in West Africa between 2017 and 2020. She was a Fellow of the American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) for the African Humanities Program (AHP) in 2022 and a fellow of the African Peacebuilding and development Dynamics (APDD) Individual Research Fellowship in 2024. Her research interests span academia/industry collaboration, arts management practices, cultural entrepreneurship, cultural sustainability and regeneration. She was a co-I to the DEEP Fund/One Ocean Hub, Ghana documentary project entitled “Cocoon in Harmony” which has been published on the YouTube channel and screened on various media channels and the PI for the documentary, "Rhythms of peace: Ghanaian Female Master Drummers and Peacebuilding in Indigenous Drumming Space". She researched into Ghanaian traditional women drummers in the performance of gender, decoloniality, peacebuilding, strong institutions and sustainability. She coordinated the recent DAAD-sponsored alumni project "Reframing Colonial Legacy".