CHARLES PREMPEH is a Ghanaian early academic who obtained his undergraduate degree in African Studies from the University of Cape Coast, Ghana, where he began in 2004 and completed with unprecedented First Class in B.A. African Studies in 2008. He subsequently served his one-year mandatory national service at the Department of African Studies, UCC as a teaching assistant. In 2009, he enrolled at the Institute of African Studies (IAS), the University of Ghana for an MPhil. degree in African Studies. After the programme’s course work in 2010, the Institute awarded him with the prestigious Agyeman Duah Award for academic excellence. He completed and submitted his MPhil thesis on: "Islam and Drugs: A Study of the use of marijuana among Muslim Youth in Maamobi Community, Accra", and graduated in 2011. He worked at the IAS as a graduate and teaching assistant from 2010 to 2013. He also pursued two years of interdisciplinary PhD course work in Social Studies at the Makerere Institute of Social Research (MISR), Makerere University (2014-2017), Uganda. From Makerere University, he gained admission to the University of Cambridge (Wolfson College) for his doctoral studies. In December 2020, Prempeh submitted his thesis doctoral thesis on “Christianity, Culture, and Pentecostalism in Ghana: An Ethnographic Study of Pentecostal Traditional Authorities in Contemporary Akan Society Pentecostalism and chieftaincy” to the Faculty of Divinity, University of Cambridge. He later defended it and passed with flying colours in February 2021. Since 2013, Prempeh has been teaching Africana Studies-related courses at the African University College of Communications, Accra. His research interests, which cut across disciplines, include chieftaincy, religions, history, philosophy, anthropology, gender, politics, and youth popular culture. He has published academic articles in these areas in high-ranking journals, including the African Studies Quarterly. He is a columnist with Ghanaweb and Modernghana online news portals. Religiously, Prempeh is a practising Christian with a theological predisposition towards Calvinism. In terms of non-academic activities, Prempeh was the first elected vice president of the African Studies Student Association at the University of Cape Coast. He also served as the president of the MISR Student Union, Makerere University. At the University Cambridge, he served as the president of the Cambridge University Ghanaian Students in 2018. He held fellowship with the Social Science Research Council in 2016. Prempeh enjoys singing hymns and Christian apologetics – signalling his passion to share the truth of his evangelical Christian faith - focusing on Jesus Christ - with academics and Muslims.
