Dr Michael Odijie awarded AHRC funding for research into unfree labour in Africa’s cocoa belt

A major new research project led by Associate Professor in African History and African Studies Michael Odijie has received nearly £737,000 in funding from the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC). 

Unfree Labour and Local Resistance in Africa’s Cocoa Belt, 1890–1990 will investigate the relationship between the expansion of commercial cocoa production and forms of unfree and coercive labour across Ghana, Côte d’Ivoire, Nigeria and Cameroon. 

Read more on the Oxford School of Global and Area Studies website