Kwasi Ndjokunla Ketchore

Professional Bio

Kwasi Ndjokunla Ketchore earned a Diploma in Education at Wesley College of Education in Ghana and was admitted three years later to the faculty of social sciences at Kwame Nkrumah University of Sciences and Technology to further his education in French. Before joining Kansas State University to pursue a master’s program in French literature, Kwasi was teaching French in High School in Ghana. Currently, as a dual title PhD student in French and Francophone and African Studies in Penn State, Kwasi is focusing his research on, among other areas, African Francophone literatures, oral literature of Sub-Sahara Africa, issues of race, African diaspora, and African migrants living outside. Living in the US, Kwasi has developed personal interests in the African American diaspora and would like to explore how culture migrates within time and space.