Indigenous Knowledge Systems
Dr P. Amoah
Distinguished Fellow of Southshore university College · McGill University · Southshore
Biography
Dr Amoah's work documents and protects Akan medicinal knowledge in collaboration with traditional authorities, bridging customary stewardship and contemporary IP frameworks.
- Discipline
- Indigenous Knowledge Systems
- Country
- Ghana / Canada
- Current university
- McGill University · Southshore
- Languages
- English, Twi, French
Areas of expertise
- Akan ethnobotany
- Traditional knowledge protection
- Community IP
- Oral history
Appointments
- Distinguished Fellow, Southshore university College (Present)
- Affiliate Researcher, McGill Institute for Indigenous Research (2018 – present)
Education
- PhD Anthropology, McGill University (2017)
- MA Sociology, KNUST (2012)
Selected publications
- Stewards of the Forest: Akan Medicinal Knowledge. Routledge, 2022.
- Community Protocols and Customary Law. Journal of African Law, 2019.
Awards & honours
- SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellowship (2018)
Contact
- Email: p.amoah@southshore.edu.gh
- Office: Heritage Studies Centre
- ORCID: 0000-0002-3344-9921
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