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Ray A. Kea
Professor of History
Ph.D., University of London, 1974
(951) 827-1978
ray.kea@ucr.edu |
- Fields of Interest: pre-colonial West African and Ghanaian
economic, cultural, and social history.
Ray Kea was born and raised in
Ohio. He received his B.A. degree from Howard University, a
diploma in History from the University of Copenhagen, his M.A.
with Distinction from the Institute of African Studies, University
of Ghana, and his Ph.D. from the School of Oriental and African
Studies, University of London. After teaching African history
for eight years at The Johns Hopkins University, Kea held a
joint appointment in African history at Carleton and St. Olaf
Colleges. He arrived at UCR in the fall of 1991. Kea's research
is focused on the history of West Africa and Ghana (i.e. the
former Gold Coast and the kingdom of Asante) in the period between
the fifteenth and nineteenth century. He is author of Settlement,
Trade and Polities in the Seventeenth Century Gold Coast. He
is currently working on a book which examines the social and
cultural history of the eighteenth and nineteenth century Gold
Coast within the context of the Atlantic world. With reference
to the latter, he has written on and is preparing articles on
the relationship between the African diaspora in the Caribbean
(especially the Danish Caribbean) and Europe. In addition, he
is investigati ng the historical connection between the Western
and Central Sudan of West Africa and the Mediterranean world
between the twelfth/thirteenth and sixteenth century.
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