Education:
I got my Bachelor's (Hons) degree in French and Spanish from the University of Ghana-Legon, a Master's degree and a Diplôme d'Etudes Approfondies in French and Comparative Literature at the Centre d'Etudes Litteraires Maghrebines Africaines et Antillaises (C.E.L.M.A) of Université de Bordeaux III. I got my Ph.D in Romance Languages and Literatures from The Ohio State University with a major in French and a minor in Spanish. My areas of specialization are 19th and 20th centuries French Literature and Francophone Literatures of Africa and the Caribbean. My minor areas of study were French Literature of the 16th to the 18th centuries and Spanish and Spanish American Literature. I have also studied at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid in Spain.
 
Diploma de Cultural Española---Universidad Complutense de Madrid (Spain)
Diploma de Lengua y Cultura Española--Instituto DIE Universitas; Madrid (Spain).
 
Master of Arts in Public Administration (M.P.A)--Minnesota State University (U.S.A.). I have taught a course on "Human Resource Management in the Public Sector". I am interested in doing some consultancy work for public organizations. My special areas of interest are: human recourse management, organizational development, and public policy issues--policy development, policy implementation, policy evaluation, etc. If interested, please contact me.
 
I have traveled widely in Europe to countries such as France, Spain, Belgium, Germany, Britain.
 
Research Interests:
My main research interests include francophone writers of Africa and the Caribbean. In this area, I do a comparative study of African and Caribbean writers. My interest includes the Spanish-speaking Caribbean. I also do a lot of research on oral tradition in Africa. I have been working on folk tales of the Dagara people of West Africa. The Dagara live in Ghana, Burkina Faso and the Ivory Coast (Cote d'Ivoire). The research involved audio and video taping of live story-telling sessions in the rural areas.
 
I have published a book titled "The African and Caribbean Historical Novel in French: A Quest for Identity". (New York/Paris: Peter Lang, 1996). I have a manuscript that is being published under the title: "Folk Tales of the Dagara of West Africa" (Woeli Publishing - Accra).  I am currently working on a manuscript "Tradition and folklore of the Dagara". It will have chapters on folk tales, riddles, dirges, and folk songs.
 
Teaching:
I teach all levels of French language, literature and culture at Gustavus. I teach a course on francophone African and Caribbean writers which is for French majors and minors. I also teach interdisciplinary courses in English. Specifically, I teach a First Term Seminar on "Culture and Society in Africa". It is a writing course for first year students. Please see the Gustavus general course requirements for more information on First Term Seminars at this college. Another interdisciplinary course that I teach is a January Term course on African folk tales. I am also interested in team -teaching and I have team-taught a course titled "African, African-American, and Afro-Caribbean Cultures".
  
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