Benjamina Efua Dadzie

Benjamina Efua Dadzie is a Ghanaian Italian researcher with interest in Akan and Yoruba culture. In her work she explores agency, representation and self-determination. Her current research deals with missionary presence and collections gathered in 19th century Abeokuta (southwestern Nigeria).
Her field is an intersection of Art History, Museology, Archaeology and Anthropology. She has presented her work in both academic and non-academic settings.

She is a former Graduate Attaché at the British Institute in Eastern Africa and Collections Assistant in Anthropology at the University of Cambridge’s Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology.

She produces and co-hosts the museum-centred podcast African Object Lessons.

Read more about her research.

• 19th century missionary collecting
• Museum interpretation
• Museum documentation
• Yorùbá material culture
• Yorùbá spirituality and divinity
• Akan trade and currency

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