De-Valera Botchway

Professor · History

Professor of History

Professor, University of Cape Coast, since 2006per ORCID

Prof. De-Valera N.Y.M. Botchway is Professor of History (Social and Cultural History of African and Diasporic African Peoples) at the Department of History and Diplomacy of University of Cape Coast (UCC) in Ghana. He was the Head of Department when the Department was known as Department of History. He also supervises theses of African Studies for the Centre for African and International Studies, UCC. He is a member of several committees and boards at UCC. These include… More on ORCID

In their own words

Social and Cultural History of African and
African History
History of Ghana
Music and Protest
Popular Culture
West African History
African and World Religions
African Diasporic Spiritual Systems
Africans in Dispersion
and Indigenous Knowledge Systems and Sustainable Development in Africa

Publications: 342002–2023
Citations: 131to those papers
h-index: 7i10-index 4
Field-weighted impact: 1.291.00 is the world average
World top 10%: 22%2 of 9 scored papers
Open access: 22%2 of the 9 whose access is recorded

In 2016–2025: 21 publications, 68 citations to them, h-index 5.

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Google Scholar shows 168 citations, h-index 9 and i10-index 6 (131 citations and h-index 8 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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To all their work, old papers included. Google Scholar also counts citations from theses, books and web pages, so its line runs higher.

What they work on

From the classification of each paper

Subfields

Sociology and Political Science618%
Education515%
Anthropology26%
Religious studies26%
Gender Studies13%
Ocean Engineering13%
Political Science and International Relations13%
Social Psychology13%

Physical Sciences
Social Sciences

Topics most written on

African cultural and philosophical studies3
Religion, Society, and Development2
African Studies and Ethnography1
African Studies and Geopolitics1
Anthropological Studies and Insights1
Bullying, Victimization, and Aggression1
Caribbean and African Literature and Culture1
Christian Theology and Mission1
Gender Roles and Identity Studies1
Global Maritime and Colonial Histories1
Historical Education Studies Worldwide1
Hydropower, Displacement, Environmental Impact1

Who they write with

12 co-authors, here and elsewhere

Same unit
Same university
No African institution

Circle area and line width are papers written together; the strongest ties sit nearest. “No African institution” is anyone the papers place outside Africa’s institutions; Peerford records affiliations only there.

Colleagues here they write with most

Where their co-authors are

11% of their 9 papers with recorded affiliations have a co-author abroad

papers co-written1111111Home

Most frequent partner countries

United States1

Papers with at least one author in that country.

Institutions written with most

Washington University in St. LouisUS1 paper

Where they publish

University of Cape Coast4
New Perspectives on the Nation of Islam2
Religions A Scholarly Journal2
Social Sciences and Missions2
A Certain Amount of Madness: The Life, Politics and Legacies of Thomas Sankara1
African Books Collective1

Development goals addressed

From each paper’s title and abstract

10Reduced inequalities2
16Peace, justice and strong institutions2
1No poverty1
14Life below water1
15Life on land1

Most cited

… The Hairs of Your Head Are All Numbered: Symbolisms of Hair and Dreadlocks in the Boboshanti Order of Rastafari.
De-Valera Botchway
Journal of Pan African Studies
201824 citations
Ecological modernization and water resource management: a critique of institutional transitions in Ghana
De-Valera Botchway, Gerald Atampugre, KENDIE Stephen Bugu, Kobina Esia-Donkoh
GeoJournal
201516 citations

Career

As their ORCID record read on October 4, 2026

Positions

Professor, Department of History and DiplomacyUniversity of Cape Coastsince 2006

Education

PhD, Department of History and DiplomacyUniversity of Cape Coast2011

Honours, memberships and service

Reviewer, Journal of West African HistoryMichigan State Universitysince 2023
• Member, Advisory Board of Global Bible: British and German Bible Societies Translating Colonialism [GloBil] 1800 to 1914, Project and Post Doctoral Programme, Global Bible: British and German Bible Societies Translating Colonialism [GloBil] 1800 to 1914, Project and Post Doctoral Programme under the UK-Germany arts and humanities partnership, between Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster and University of BristoUniversity of Münstersince 2022
Member, Adam Matthew Digital Future Scholarship Advisory BoardAdam Matthew Digital Future Scholarship Advisory Boardsince 2022
• Member of Board of Directors and Co-Director of Pan African Curriculum and Instruction, HAEC and 3 GCHBCU Africa Education Coalition Corp. (HAEC) a subsidiary of 3GC Incorporated,since 2020
FellowAfrican Humanities Programsince 2013
Historical Society of Ghanasince 2005
Full time, University of Cape CoastUniversity Teachers Association of Ghana, University of Cape Coast Branchsince 2005
• Member of research and grant writing team and lecturing faculty for “Echoes in the Africana World Collaborative Online International Learning Cohort (2023 Cohort), Center for Africana Studies and CultureIndiana University Indianapolis2022–2023
• External Assessor of Publications for Promotion from Reader to Professor, Office of the Vice ChancellorUniversity of Ibadan2022
• External Consultant and Member of PsyD Dissertation Committee, Michigan School of PsychologyMichigan School of Professional Psychology2021–2023

Recent publications

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Thomas Sankara: An Intellectual Statesman in Power, Culture, and Education in Burkina Faso (1983–1987): A Review After 30 Years
De-Valera Botchway, Traore Moussa
Contributions to political science16
20230 citations
A RHETORIC OF CHINA’S EXPLOITATION OF RELIGION IN WEST AFRICA
De-Valera Botchway, Wincharles Coker
KENTE - Cape Coast Journal of Literature and the Arts1
20230 citationsOpen access · Bronze
Bullying in the Name of Care: A Social History of ‘Homoing’ Among Students in Ghanaian Boarding Schools
De-Valera Botchway
Palgrave studies in the history of childhood10
20224 citationsWorld top 10%
Boxing is no Cakewalk!: Azumah'Ring Professor'Nelson in the Social History of Ghanaian Boxing
De-Valera Botchway
African Books Collective
201910 citations
New Perspectives on African Childhood: Constructions, Histories, Representations and Understandings
De-Valera Botchway
Vernon Press
20195 citations
New perspectives on African childhood
De-Valera Botchway
Constructions, histories, representations and understandings. Wilmington: Vernon Press
20191 citation
… The Hairs of Your Head Are All Numbered: Symbolisms of Hair and Dreadlocks in the Boboshanti Order of Rastafari.
De-Valera Botchway
Journal of Pan African Studies
201824 citations
Military Coup, Popular Revolution or Militarised Revolution?: Contextualising the Revolutionary Ideological Courses of Thomas Sankara and the National Council of the Revolution
De-Valera Botchway
Murrey, op. cit
20189 citations
Africa and the First World War: Remembrance, Memories and Representations After 100 Years
De-Valera Botchway, Kwame Osei Kwarteng
Cambridge Scholars Publishing
20183 citations
“There is a New African in the World!” – Kwame Nkrumah and the Making of a “New African (Wo)Man” in Ghana 1957–1966
De-Valera Botchway
Comparativ10
20182 citationsOpen access · Bronze

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