Edmund AbakaEdmund Abaka is associate professor of African history at the University of Miami, where he has been teaching for more than two decades. He was Director of Africana Studies from 2004-2014 and is now a Research Fellow of the Global Centre for Back Studies at the same University. He has written several books including Africa and the Second World War: Africa’s “Finest Hour”? (2022). He has contributed many chapters on North Africa, Portuguese Africa, African youth in Ethiopia, Ghana and Libya, and articles on kola and sites of historical memory. He is also the editor of Abibisem: Journal of African Culture and Civilization, which is based at the Department of History, University of Cape Coast. Read More Read Less