Ama Biney facts for kids

Ama Biney is a British Ghanaian historian, journalist, and academic. She was born in the 1960s. For over 25 years, she has taught about African and Caribbean history. She also teaches about the history of Black people in Britain.

Ama Biney has lectured at universities in the UK and Ghana. These include Middlesex University and the University of Liverpool. She has written for magazines like New African and Pambazuka News. She even worked as Editor-in-Chief for Pambazuka News. Ama Biney is known as a Pan-Africanist scholar. This means she studies and supports the idea of a united Africa. She believes in speaking her mind, like the activist Steve Biko.

About Ama Biney

Ama Biney started her university journey at the University of Birmingham. There, she earned her first degree in African Studies. Later, in 1988, she got a Master's degree. This was from the School of Oriental & African Studies. Her studies focused on the government and politics of West and Southern Africa.

She then earned her PhD from the University of London. A PhD is a very high university degree. Her special research project, called a doctoral thesis, was about "Kwame Nkrumah: An Intellectual History." Kwame Nkrumah was an important leader in Ghana's history.

Her Published Works

Ama Biney has written important books. One of her well-known books is The Political and Social Thought of Kwame Nkrumah. This book was published in 2011. She also helped put together another book. It is called Speaking Truth to Power: Selected Pan-African Postcards of Tajudeen Abdul-Raheem. This book came out in 2010.

In 2019, she also contributed to a collection of writings. This collection is called New Daughters of Africa. It was put together by Margaret Busby.