Kwesi Yankah

653 total citations
31 papers, 321 citations indexed

About

Kwesi Yankah is a scholar working on Literature and Literary Theory, Language and Linguistics and Anthropology. According to data from OpenAlex, Kwesi Yankah has authored 31 papers receiving a total of 321 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 8 papers in Literature and Literary Theory, 6 papers in Language and Linguistics and 5 papers in Anthropology. Recurrent topics in Kwesi Yankah's work include African history and culture studies (5 papers), Multilingual Education and Policy (5 papers) and Postcolonial and Cultural Literary Studies (4 papers). Kwesi Yankah is often cited by papers focused on African history and culture studies (5 papers), Multilingual Education and Policy (5 papers) and Postcolonial and Cultural Literary Studies (4 papers). Kwesi Yankah collaborates with scholars based in Ghana, United Kingdom and Mexico. Kwesi Yankah's co-authors include Philip M. Peek, Paulo Fernando de Moraes Farias, John Johnson, Jeff Opland, Graham Furniss, Liz Gunner, Isabel Hofmeyr, A. Gadzekpo and E. Gyimah‐Boadi and has published in prestigious journals such as Discourse & Society, Journal of American Folklore and Journal of Linguistic Anthropology.

In The Last Decade

Kwesi Yankah

28 papers receiving 215 citations

Peers

Kwesi Yankah
Debra Spitulnik United States
Walter F. Edwards United States
José E. Limón United States
James R. Dow United States
Wlad Godzich Portugal
Ilán Stavans United States
Milton Ehre United States
Debra Spitulnik United States
Kwesi Yankah
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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
1.
Yankah, Kwesi. (2016). Displaced Academies and the Quest for a New World Academic Order. Africa Today. 42(3). 7–25. 2 indexed citations
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Peek, Philip M. & Kwesi Yankah. (2004). African Folklore. 28 indexed citations
3.
Yankah, Kwesi. (2004). Narrative in Times of Crisis: AIDS Stories in Ghana. Journal of Folklore Research. 41(2). 181–198. 1 indexed citations
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Yankah, Kwesi. (2004). Narrative in Times of Crisis: AIDS Stories in Ghana. Journal of Folklore Research. 41(2-3). 181–198. 10 indexed citations
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Gyimah‐Boadi, E., Kwesi Yankah, & A. Gadzekpo. (2002). Governance, Democracy and Development in Africa: Developing a Cultural Approach. 1 indexed citations
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Yankah, Kwesi. (1999). African Folk and the Challenges of a Global Lore. Africa Today. 46(2). 9–27. 2 indexed citations
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Yankah, Kwesi. (1999). African Folk and the Challenges of a Global Lore. Africa Today. 46(2). 8–27. 3 indexed citations
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Yankah, Kwesi. (1998). Free Speech in Traditional Society: The Cultural Foundations of Communication in Contemporary Ghana. Medical Entomology and Zoology. 16 indexed citations
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Yankah, Kwesi. (1998). The communication factor in the pan-African heritage. 11. 1–16. 1 indexed citations
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Yankah, Kwesi. (1995). Metadiscourse: The framing of avoidance in formal encounters. Text - Interdisciplinary Journal for the Study of Discourse. 15(2). 2 indexed citations
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Furniss, Graham, Isabel Hofmeyr, John Johnson, et al.. (1995). Power, Marginality and African Oral Literature. Cambridge University Press eBooks. 64 indexed citations
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Yankah, Kwesi. (1992). Traditional lore in population communication: the case of the Akan in Ghana.. PubMed. 6(1). 15–24. 3 indexed citations
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Yankah, Kwesi. (1990). Oral Traditions and the Physical Environment. Geografisk Tidsskrift-Danish Journal of Geography. 90(1). 5–9. 1 indexed citations
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Yankah, Kwesi. (1989). Proverbs: the aesthetics of traditional communication. Research in African Literatures. 20(3). 325–346. 31 indexed citations
15.
Yankah, Kwesi. (1989). The proverb in the context of Akan rhetoric : a theory of proverb praxis. Medical Entomology and Zoology. 41 indexed citations
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Yankah, Kwesi. (1986). Proverb Rhetoric and African Judicial Processes: The Untold Story. Journal of American Folklore. 99(393). 280–280. 12 indexed citations
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Yankah, Kwesi. (1985). The Making and Breaking of Kwame Nkrumah: The Role of Oral Poetry. Journal of African studies. 12(2). 86–92. 1 indexed citations
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Yankah, Kwesi. (1984). The Akan highlife song: a medium of cultural reflection or deflection. Research in African Literatures. 15(4). 568–582. 15 indexed citations
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Yankah, Kwesi. (1984). Do Proverbs Contradict. 153–168. 8 indexed citations
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Yankah, Kwesi. (1983). To praise or not to praise the king: the Akan apae in the context of referential poetry. Research in African Literatures. 14(3). 381–400. 7 indexed citations

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