Agbenyega Adedze
Associate Professor
Office
SCH Schroeder Hall 315
Office Hours
T/R 8:30 - 9:30 and or/by appointment.
Office Phone
Email
- About
- Education
- Awards & Honors
- Selected Research
Current Courses
HIS 104.001 History Of Africa
HIS 266.001 Modern Africa
HIS 490.005 Readings -- Field Of Study
Teaching Interests & Areas
Professor Adedze is a specialist in African history with interests in material culture and the cultural history of museums. He has published articles on material culture and museums as tools for nationalism in Africa. His dissertation focused on the social history of museums in West Africa.
Research Interests & Areas
African History
Ph D History
University of California, Los Angeles
Los Angeles, CA
MA
University of California, Los Angeles
Los Angeles, California
BA
Université du Benin
Lome, Togo
Bronze Award
American Philatelic Society
2025
The Impact Award 2025
University College
2025
American Association of Philatelic Exhibitors Novice Award
American Philatelic Society
2022
Vermeil
American Philatelic Society
2022
Performances and Exhibits
The First International Women's Year of the United Nations (1975) and the Philatelic Voices of Africa
Tony Adedze.
American Philatelic Society. August 14 2025 - August 17 2025
Tony Adedze.
American Philatelic Society. August 14 2025 - August 17 2025
Masterpieces from Ghana Museums on Stamps
Tony Adedze.
American Philatelic Society. August 2022 - August 2022
Tony Adedze.
American Philatelic Society. August 2022 - August 2022
History of Soccer: Bloomington/Normal
Tony Adedze.
N/A. April 2014 - April 2018
Tony Adedze.
N/A. April 2014 - April 2018
Book, Chapter
Memory and Museums in Africa
Tony Adedze.
(2007), New Encyclopedia of Africa, 2nd Edition, Gale Group
Journal Article
A New Star is Born: The Early Years of Ghana Postage Stamps
Tony Adedze.
Topical Time (Journal of Thematic Philately), 66 (392), 34-44, (2015)
Domination and Resistance Through the Prism of Stamps
Tony Adedze.
Africa Zamani, (17), 227-246, (2012)
Visualizing the Game: The Iconography of Football on African Postage Stamps
Tony Adedze.
Soccer & Society, 13 (2), 294-308, (2012)
Other
Togo: Dress
Tony Adedze.
Berg Fashion Library Ltd, (2008)
Presentations
Collecting and Exhibition West Africa in Institut Francais d'Afrique Noire (IFAN) Museums: 1950-1980s
Agbenyega Adedze.
African Studies Association, Washington, DC, December 1, 2016
Ghana: An Early Stamp History: 1957-1966
Agbenyega Adedze.
Cornbelt Philatelic Society Meeting, Bloomington, IL, October 17, 2016
African Football/Soccer Postage Stamps and Globalization: A Comparative Visual Study
Agbenyega Adedze.
Soccer as A Global Phenomenon, Cambridge, MA, April 14, 2016
The Public Memory of the TransAtlantic Slave Trade: Ghana, Senegal, Brazil, Haiti and Suriname.
Tony Adedze.
African Culture Week - Illinois Wesleyan University, Illinois Wesleyan University, October 26, 2015
Dr. Kwame Nkrumah: A Philatelic Exhibition
Tony Adedze.
International Symposium “The Dream, The Reality: Reassessments of African Independence, Accra, Ghana, September, 2010
Icons of Independence or the Role of the Individual in History
Tony Adedze.
International Symposium “The Dream, The Reality: Reassessments of African Independence, Accra, Ghana, September, 2010
The Beautiful Game: World Cup Soccer on Postage Stamps
Tony Adedze.
McLean County Arts Center, South Africa, July, 2010
Visualizing the Game: The Iconography of Football on African Postage Stamps
Tony Adedze.
International conference: Visualizing the Game: Global Perspectives on African Football, Switzerland, January, 2010
Portraits in the Hands of Strangers: Colonial and Postcolonial Postcards As Vignettes to African Women's History
Tony Adedze.
Codesria Conference on Writing the History of Women in Africa: Past, Present, and Future, Nairobi, Kenya, October, 2009
Ghana @ Fifty: A Review of Ghana’s Official History through Postage Stamps
Tony Adedze.
CODESRIA 12th General Assembly “Governing the African Public Sphere”, Yaoundé, Cameroon, December, 2008
Portraits in the Hands of Strangers
Tony Adedze.
Colloquium Cosmopolitan Identities and Alternative Histories: African in Front of and Behind the Camera, Online, November 22, 2008
African Icons of Resistance on Postage Stamps
Tony Adedze.
African Cultural Week, Online, November 6, 2008
Domination and Resistance through the Prism of Postage Stamps
Tony Adedze.
Conference on Re-Reading the History and Historiography of Domination and Resistance in Africa Kampala, Uganda, October, 2008
Icons of Slavery: Commemorative Postage Stamps from Africa, the Americas, and Europe
Tony Adedze.
Annual Meeting of the International American Studies Association, Lisbon, Portugal, September, 2007
Troubling Views: A Review of African Postage Stamps
Tony Adedze.
AIGIS European Conference on African Studies, Leiden, The Netherlands, July, 2007
Pan-Africanism: Cultural Nationalism or Afrokitsch
Tony Adedze.
Fourth Congress of Association of African History, Addis Ababa, May, 2007