Akwasi Bretuo Assensoh

Akwasi Bretuo Assensoh is a Ghanaian academic and journalist. He is an emeritus professor of African American and African Diaspora Studies at Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana.

Early life and education Assensoh was born on 1 April 1946 at Dunkwa-On-Offin, Gold Coast to Opanin Kwabena and Abena Amoateng. He moved to the United States of America in 1978.

Works

Kwame Nkrumah: Six Years in Exile, 1966-72'", (1978) Black Woman: An African Story (novel), (1980) Martin Luther King, Jr. and America's Quest for Racial Integration, (1987) Kwame Nkrumah of Africa: His Formative Years and the Beginning of His Political Career, 1935-1948, (1989) African Political Leadership: Jomo Kenyatta, Kwame Nkrumah, and Julius K. Nyerere, (1998) African Military History and Politics: Coups and Ideological Incursions, 1900-Present, (2002) Malcolm X: A Biography, (2013)