Emmanuel Saboro

Centre for African and International Studies

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

Dr. Emmanuel Saboro is a senior lecturer at the Centre for African and International Studies, University of Cape Coast, Ghana and a fellow of the American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS), African Humanities Program (F’17). He is an interdisciplinary scholar with research interests centred on the interface between Literature/Folklore and Oral History. Specifically, he has been interested in the impact of the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade on Africa, late 19th and 20th Century… More on ORCID

In their own words

African Literature
Cultural Memory
Slavery Studies
Oral History
Senior Lecturer
CAIS

Publications: 192013–2026
Citations: 79to those papers
h-index: 5i10-index 3
Field-weighted impact: 0.471.00 is the world average
World top 10%: 20%1 of 5 scored papers
Open access: 40%2 of the 5 whose access is recorded

In 2016–2025: 16 publications, 70 citations to them, h-index 4.

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Google Scholar shows 129 citations, h-index 6 and i10-index 4 (104 citations and h-index 5 since 2021), as of October 3, 2026. It also counts theses, books and web pages, so it runs higher.

By year

Papers, and the citations to them

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Citations received each year

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What they work on

From the classification of each paper

Subfields

Anthropology421%
Sociology and Political Science316%
Education15%
Geography, Planning and Development15%
Literature and Literary Theory15%
Political Science and International Relations15%

Social Sciences

Topics most written on

African history and culture studies2
African studies and sociopolitical issues2
Colonialism, slavery, and trade2
African cultural and philosophical studies1
African history and culture analysis1
Anthropological Studies and Insights1
Ecocriticism and Environmental Literature1
Geographies of human-animal interactions1
Global Maritime and Colonial Histories1
Literature, Magical Realism, García Márquez1
Race, History, and American Society1
Vietnamese History and Culture Studies1

Who they write with

4 co-authors, here and elsewhere

Same unit
Same university
No African institution

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Colleagues here they write with most

Papers written together.

Where they publish

(No Title)1
A Comparative Literary History of Modern Slavery: The Atlantic world and beyond. Volume II: Slavery, memory and literature1
African Studies Quarterly1
Africology: The Journal of Pan African Studies1
Anti-trafficking review1
Asεmka A Bilingual Literary Journal of University of Cape Coast

Development goals addressed

From each paper’s title and abstract

10Reduced inequalities2
4Quality education1
5Gender equality1

Most cited

Career

As their ORCID record read on October 4, 2026

Positions

Senior Lecturer, Centre for African and International StudiesUniversity of Cape Coastsince 2010

Education

PhD, Wilberforce Institute for the Study of Slavery and EmancipationUniversity of Hull2011–2015
MPhil (African Literature), EnglishUniversity of Cape Coast2004–2009
BA (ARTS), EnglishUniversity of Cape Coast2000–2003

Recent publications

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Worlds of Unfreedom: West Central Africa in the era of global abolition
Emmanuel Saboro
Cultural Studies10
20260 citations
“Oh, Friends, Do Look at Kweku Ananse’s Amazing Ways”: The Song as a Subtext in Efua Sutherland’s Edufa (1967) and The Marriage of Anansewa (1975)
Emmanuel Saboro
KENTE-Cape Coast Journal of Literature and the Arts
20260 citations
Chapter 12. The confluence of fiction, historical memory and oral history: The crises of identity and traumatic memories in Ama: A Story of the Atlantic Slave Trade
Emmanuel Saboro
A Comparative Literary History of Modern Slavery: The Atlantic world and beyond. Volume II: Slavery, memory and literature
20250 citations
Towards an Understanding of Local African Abolitionism: George Ekem Ferguson, an Unexplored Abolitionist in 19th Century Ghana
Emmanuel Saboro
Esclavages & Post-esclavages. Slaveries & Post-Slaveries
20241 citation
Wounds of Our Past: remembering captivity, enslavement and resistance in African oral narratives
Emmanuel Saboro
Brill
202214 citations
Intimations of Futurity: Masculinities, Traumatic Memories and Spatial Dynamics in Adichie's Purple Hibiscus (2004).
Christabel Aba Sam, Emmanuel Saboro
Journal of African Languages & Literary Studies (JoALLS)
20222 citations
Animality: Animal imagery, characterization, and the articulation of difference in Victor Yankah’s dear blood
Emmanuel Saboro, Rogers Asempasah
Asεmka A Bilingual Literary Journal of University of Cape Coast
20220 citationsOpen access · Bronze
‘Why Was He Videoing Us?’: The ethics and politics of audio-visual propaganda in child trafficking and human trafficking campaigns
Emmanuel Saboro
Anti-trafficking review
202124 citations
Unsettling the coloniality of power: form, grievability, and futurity in Opoku-Agyemang’s Cape Coast Castle: A Collection of Poems (1996)
Emmanuel Saboro, Rogers Asempasah
Cogent Arts and Humanities4
20214 citationsWorld top 10%Open access · Gold
War Songs: Slavery, Oral Tradition, and Identity Construction
Emmanuel Saboro
5
20211 citation

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