Emmanuel Saboro
- Senior Lecturer, University of Cape Coast, since 2010per ORCID
Publishing since 2013, latest 2026
Dr. Emmanuel Saboro is a senior lecturer at the Centre for African and International Studies, University of Cape Coast, Ghana and a fellow of the American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS), African Humanities Program (F’17). He is an interdisciplinary scholar with research interests centred on the interface between Literature/Folklore and Oral History. Specifically, he has been interested in the impact of the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade on Africa, late 19th and 20th Century… More on ORCID
- Anthropology
- Sociology and Political Science
- Education
- Geography, Planning and Development
- Literature and Literary Theory
- Political Science and International Relations
In their own words
- African Literature
- Cultural Memory
- Slavery Studies
- Oral History
- Senior Lecturer
- CAIS
- Publications
- 192013–2026
- Citations
- 79to those papers
- h-index
- 5i10-index 3
- Field-weighted impact
- 0.471.00 is the world average
- World top 10%
- 20%1 of 5 scored papers
- Open access
- 40%2 of the 5 whose access is recorded
2 other works — preprints, datasets and the like — are listed but not counted.
Google Scholar shows 129 citations, h-index 6 and i10-index 4 (104 citations and h-index 5 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
- Senior Lecturer, Centre for African and International StudiesUniversity of Cape Coastsince 2010
Education
- PhD, Wilberforce Institute for the Study of Slavery and EmancipationUniversity of Hull2011–2015
- MPhil (African Literature), EnglishUniversity of Cape Coast2004–2009
- BA (ARTS), EnglishUniversity of Cape Coast2000–2003
Publications
19 in all
- Worlds of Unfreedom: West Central Africa in the era of global abolition
2026Cultural StudiesJournalFirst authorCorresponding0 citations10.1080/09502386.2026.2701183
- “Oh, Friends, Do Look at Kweku Ananse’s Amazing Ways”: The Song as a Subtext in Efua Sutherland’s Edufa (1967) and The Marriage of Anansewa (1975)
2026KENTE-Cape Coast Journal of Literature and the Arts