Mjiba Frehiwot is a Research Fellow at the Institute of African Studies at the University of Ghana. She is in the History and Politics Section of the Institute. Dr. Frehiwot researches, debates and thinks deeply about Pan-African consciousness and how to decolonize and re-Africanize knowledge production in Global Africa. Her primary research focuses on Pan-Africanism, African political thought, and social movements in Global Africa with a focus on Ghana, Tanzania and the United States. Dr. Frehiwot is engaged with several funded projects that centre questions of decolonization, African Agency and Pan-Africanism. She recently released her first film titled “Umoja: Africa Must Unite Now” and she is the Treasurer of the African Studies Association of Africa.
Mjiba has published several journal articles book chapters and technical reports.