De-Valera N. Y. M. Botchway
- Professor, University of Cape Coast, since 2006per ORCID
Publishing since 2002, latest 2023
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
- Sociology and Political Science
- Education
- Anthropology
- Religious studies
- Gender Studies
- Ocean Engineering
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
1 other work — a preprint, a dataset or the like — is listed but not counted.
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
Publications, left axisCitations to that year’s papers, right axis2026 still in progress
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 Bristo
Publications
34 in all
- Thomas Sankara: An Intellectual Statesman in Power, Culture, and Education in Burkina Faso (1983–1987): A Review After 30 Years
2023Contributions to political scienceBook chapterFirst authorCorresponding0 citations10.1007/978-3-031-31427-8_9
- A RHETORIC OF CHINA’S EXPLOITATION OF RELIGION IN WEST AFRICA
2023KENTE - Cape Coast Journal of Literature and the Arts