Samuel Kwesi Nkansah

Senior Lecturer · Department of English

Professor of Literature, Department of English

Senior Lecturer, University of Cape Coast, since 2010per ORCID

In their own words

Humour
Literary Stylistics
Oral Literature and Contemporary Ghanaian
Stylistics (Literary and Corpus)
African Literature
Humour in Literary Works
Literary Techniques in Ghanaian Music
Emergent Literary Genres

Publications: 232009–2026
Citations: 57to those papers
h-index: 5i10-index 0
Field-weighted impact: 3.811.00 is the world average
World top 10%: 50%6 of 12 scored papers
Open access: 58%7 of the 12 whose access is recorded

In 2016–2025: 19 publications, 51 citations to them, h-index 4.

By year

Papers, and the citations to them

Publications, left axisCitations to that year’s papers, right axis2026 still in progress

Citations received each year

PeerfordGoogle Scholar

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What they work on

From the classification of each paper

Subfields

Literature and Literary Theory835%
Sociology and Political Science313%
Anthropology29%
Experimental and Cognitive Psychology29%
Political Science and International Relations29%
Archeology14%
Cultural Studies14%
Gender Studies14%
Geography, Planning and Development14%
Language and Linguistics14%

Social Sciences

Topics most written on

Postcolonial and Cultural Literary Studies4
Discourse Analysis in Language Studies2
Ecocriticism and Environmental Literature2
Language, Metaphor, and Cognition2
African history and culture analysis1
African history and culture studies1
Archaeology and Rock Art Studies1
Caribbean history, culture, and politics1
Comics and Graphic Narratives1
Diverse Musicological Studies1
Environmental Philosophy and Ethics1
Environmental, Ecological, and Cultural Studies1

Who they write with

3 co-authors, here and elsewhere

Same unit
Same university

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Colleagues here they write with most

Papers written together.

Where they publish

Linguistics Initiative3
Cogent Arts and Humanities2
Drumspeak International Journal of Research in the Humanities2
Íkala Revista de Lenguaje y Cultura2
Journal of the African Literature Association2
Advances in Social Sciences Research Journal1

Development goals addressed

From each paper’s title and abstract

4Quality education3
5Gender equality2
16Peace, justice and strong institutions2
11Sustainable cities and communities1

Most cited

Foregrounding the verbal process: A corpus stylistic analysis of Adichie’s Zikora (2020)
Samuel Kwesi Nkansah
Linguistics Initiative
20228 citations
Corpus Assisted Approach To Armah’s The Beautyful Ones Are Not Yet Born
Samuel Kwesi Nkansah
KENTE - Cape Coast Journal of Literature and the Arts16
20217 citationsWorld top 10%
Ambiguity as a communicative style: A study of Rufftown Records

Career

As their ORCID record read on October 4, 2026

Positions

Senior Lecturer, Department of EnglishUniversity of Cape Coastsince 2010

Education

Certificate in Contemporary American Literature, College of Social SciencesUniversity of Louisville2015
PhD, Department of EnglishUniversity of Cape Coast2012–2019
MPhil, Department of EnglishUniversity of Cape Coast2004–2009
B.Ed. English Education, Department of English EducationUniversity of Education, Winneba1999–2003

Recent publications

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Mapping female consciousness: A feminist stylistic analysis of Chris Abaniâ€™ s Becoming Abigail (2006) and Chimamanda Adichieâ€™ s Zikora (2020)
Samuel Kwesi Nkansah
LET: Linguistics, Literature and English Teaching Journal
20260 citations
Cultural appropriation in Ndibe’s Foreign Gods, Inc.(2014): A corpus stylistic analysis
Samuel Kwesi Nkansah
Linguistics Initiative
20260 citations
Re-storying Nature: An Eco-critical Reading of Parkes’s Tail of the Blue Bird
Samuel Kwesi Nkansah
Eastern African Literary and Cultural Studies4
20252 citationsWorld top 10%
Navigating transnational realities: migration in Okey Ndibe’s Foreign Gods, Inc . (2014)
Samuel Kwesi Nkansah
African Identities
20250 citations
Re-visioning Ayi Kwei Armah’s Fragments: A Corpus Stylistic Analysis Using Wmatrix
Samuel Kwesi Nkansah
Íkala Revista de Lenguaje y Cultura4
20242 citationsWorld top 10%Open access · Diamond
Narrative perspectives in selected Ghanaian Hiplife lyrics
Samuel Kwesi Nkansah
Cogent Arts and Humanities5
20242 citationsWorld top 10%Open access · Gold
Indigenous Place Names: A Literary Toponomastics Study of Suburb Names in Cape Coast
Samuel Kwesi Nkansah
Discourses on Culture11
20241 citationOpen access · Diamond
Between tradition and modernity: naming practices as indicators of identity in post-colonial Ghanaian literature
Samuel Kwesi Nkansah
Cogent Arts and Humanities
20240 citationsOpen access · Gold
Repenser les Fragments d’Ayi Kwei Armah: analyse stylistique du corpus avec Wmatrix
Samuel Kwesi Nkansah
Íkala, Revista de Lenguaje y Cultura
20240 citations
Nature as a symbiotic edge of humanity: eco-critical reading of Armah’sThe Healers
Samuel Kwesi Nkansah
Journal of the African Literature Association
20235 citationsWorld top 10%

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