Interview with Kwaku Addo, December 4, 2013

Interview Summary

Kwaku Addo of Ghana was one of the first, if not the first, assistant professors from an African country when he arrived in 1991 to join the Dietetics and Nutrition Science Department at the University of Kentucky. In his interview he describes his childhood and schooling Ghana through his first degree in biochemistry at Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, then research lab experience in Switzerland and Canada, followed by M.A. and PhD education in the U.S., and 22 years at the University of Kentucky as faculty and administrator. His continued connections to Ghana include eight years taking students and faculty each May to Ghana and raising money for a Kentucky Academy, a kindergarten school that he and his wife Esther run in Esther's home village. In fall 2013 soon after the beginning of this oral history project, he became an administrator at Prairie View A&M University in Texas.

Interview Keyword

Biochemistry Canada Childhood Connections Education Idaho Immigrants Marriage Nutrition science Study abroad Switzerland University of Kentucky Washington State Universities and colleges--Administration.

Interview LC Subject

Africa Ghana Universities and colleges--Faculty College teachers Emigration and immigration

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