I am a lecturer of Art and Creative Education in the Department of Basic Education, University of Cape Coast. My publications include New Perspectives on African Childhood: Constructions, Histories, Representations, Understandings (Vernon Press, 2019), “Adults are just obsolete children . . .”: Child Fancy Dress Parades as a Carnivalesque Suspension of Adultism in Winneba, Ghana, in New Perspectives on African Childhood: Constructions, Histories, Representations, Understandings. (Vernon Press, 2019), “Freaks in Procession? Fancy Dress Masquerade as a Haven for Negotiating Eccentricity during Childhood. A study of child masqueraders in Cape Coast, in Misfit Children: An Enquiry into Childhood Belongings (Lexington Books, 2017), and “Bo Me Truo”: A Female-Centred Sun Fire Nudity Dance Ritual of Fertility of the Sehwi People of Ghana, an article in Chronica Mundi journal (2014).
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Awo Sarpong, PhD 