Samuel Aniegye Ntewusu is the Director of the Institute of African Studies, University of Ghana. He holds a PhD in History from the University of Leiden, The Netherlands, and an Mphil in African Studies from the University of Ghana. Since August 2011, Ntewusu has worked in the Institute of African Studies, University of Ghana. He was promoted Senior Research Fellow in 2016 and Associate Professor in 2021. He teaches Chieftaincy and Development in Africa (undergraduate course), and in collaboration with other lecturers, handles the following post-graduate courses: The Slave Trade and Africa, African Historiography and

Methodology, Colonial Rule and African Responses and Pan Africanism.  His research interest is in Social History. In 2016, Ntewusu was a recipient of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW) Award. He was the African Distinguished Speaker 2019 at California State University- Long Beach. In 2022 he was selected to give a lecture on ‘African Royalty’ by The Antigua and Barbuda Reparations Support Commission. The same year he was made a member of the Board of Trustees of Voorhees University, Denmark, South Carolina, USA.