Mjiba Frehiwot

Dr Mjiba Frehiwot is a Research Fellow at the Institute of African Studies at the University of Ghana. She received her PhD from Howard University, where she focused her research on the role of formal and informal education in building Pan-African consciousness in Ghana, 1957-1966. Her primary research focuses on Pan-Africanism, African political thought, decolonizing evaluation, and social movements in Global Africa. She is involved in several projects including the Andrew W. Mellon Funded 30th Anniversary Early Career Project-Afro-Asian Futures Past and Re-Invigorating Humanities Research at The University of Ghana (Rehure) funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. She released her documentary “Umoja: Africa Must Unite Now” (2021) at the Kwame Nkrumah Intellectual Festival.