Edmund Abaka

Edmund Abaka is a photographer and historian of Africa at the University of Miami in Coral Gables, Florida.

He is a graduate of the University of Cape Coast in Ghana and received his master's from the University of Guelph in Canada. He received his PhD from York University in 1998.

He is a Fulbright scholar.

Selected publications

 * "Kola is God's Gift": Agricultural Production, Export Initiatives and the Kola Industry of Asante and the Gold Coast, c. 1820–1950. Ohio University Press, Athens, 2005. (Western African Studies)
 * Culture And Customs of Ethiopia. 2007
 * House of Slaves and "Door of No Return": Gold Coast/Ghana Slave Forts, Castles & Dungeons and the Atlantic Slave Trade. University of Wisconsin Press
 * W. E. B. Du Bois on Africa (edited with Eugene F. Provenzo)