Kwasi Konadu is an award-winning historian, healer, publisher, and former John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Endowed Chair and Professor at Colgate University. He teaches courses on African history and African diasporic histories and culture, as well as comparative world history. He is the author of Many Black Women of this Fortress (Hurst/Oxford U. Press, 2022); Africa’s Gold Coast through Portuguese Sources, 1471-1671 (British Academy/Oxford U. Press, 2022); Our Own Way in This Part of the World: Biography of an African Community, Culture, and Nation (Duke U. Press, 2019); The Ghana Reader (Duke U. Press, 2016); Transatlantic Africa (Oxford U. Press, 2015); and The Akan Diaspora in the Americas (Oxford U. Press, 2010), among other books. Dr Konadu's writing has appeared in such divers...