Dr. Ian E. A. Yeboah
Associate Professor

My research and teaching center on the geography of Sub-Saharan Africa with specific interests in urban, economic and development issues.  My specific research country is Ghana.  The framework of my analyses is the nexus of global and local forces as they relate to urban places as centers of production, distribution and consumption.  I am interested in how this nexus is creating emerging geographies in Sub-Saharan Africa and affecting its peoples both in the global core and periphery.  Both my writing and teaching focus on how local spaces in Sub-Saharan Africa are being changed by global forces and how they in turn influence global forces.  I concentrate on urban morphology, intensification and alleviation of poverty and the emergence of African Diasporas in the global core, especially the United States.  I also am editor of African Geographical Review. 

Education:
  Ph.D., Calgary, 1994

Teaching Responsibilities:
  - Global Forces, Local Diversity

  - Global Change
  - Geography of Sub-Saharan Africa
  - Global Periphery's urbanization
  - Global Poverty

Selected Publications:
Ian E.A. Yeboah, 2006. HIV/AIDS and the Construction of Africa; Heuristic Lessons from the Social Sciences for Policy (forthcoming in Social Sciences and Medicine)

Ian E.A. Yeboah, 2006. Subaltern Strategies and Development Practice: Urban Water Privatization in Ghana.  Geographical Journal, Vol. 172, No. 1, pp. 50-65

Ian E.A. Yeboah, 2005. Housing the Urban Poor in Twenty-first Century Sub-Saharan Africa: Policy Mismatch and a Way Forward for Ghana.  GeoJournal, Vol. 62, No. 1, pp. 147-161

Ian E.A. Yeboah, 2003. Demographic and Housing Aspects of Structural Adjustment and Emerging Urban Form in Accra, Ghana. Africa Today, Vol. 50, No. 1, pp. 106-119.

Ian E.A. Yeboah, 2003. Political Landscape of Sub-Saharan Africa and Emerging Democratic Trend. Sam Aryeetey-Attoh (ed.) Geography of Sub-Saharan Africa, pp. 78-104, 2nd edition. Prentice Hall.

Ian E.A. Yeboah, 2003. Historical Geography of Sub-Saharan Africa: Opportunities and Constraints. Sam Aryeetey-Attoh (ed.) Geography of Sub-Saharan Africa, pp. 105-133, 2nd edition. Prentice Hall.

Ian E.A. Yeboah, 2001. Structural Adjustment Programs and Emerging Urban Forms. Kwadwo Konadu-Agyeman (ed.) IMF and World Bank Sponsored Structural Adjustment Programs in Africa. Ghana's Experience, 1983-1999, pp. 311-332. Ashgate.

Ian E.A. Yeboah and John Briggs, 2001. Structural Adjustment and the Contemporary African City. Area, Vol. 33, No. 1, pp. 18-26.

Ian E.A. Yeboah, 2000. Structural Adjustment and Emerging Urban Form in Accra, Ghana. Africa Today, Vol. 47, No. 2, pp. 61-89.

Last Modified 15th August, 2006