{"id":1912,"date":"2017-11-08T09:17:23","date_gmt":"2017-11-08T15:17:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/history\/?page_id=1912"},"modified":"2026-09-24T10:57:50","modified_gmt":"2026-09-24T16:57:50","slug":"dr-kofi-barima","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/history\/dr-kofi-barima\/","title":{"rendered":"Dr. Kofi Barima"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1424\" src=\"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/history\/files\/2016\/09\/2016-09-23_Barima_Kofi1.png\" alt=\"Kofi Barima\" width=\"225\" height=\"275\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Associate Professor<\/strong><br \/>\nEmail: kofi.r.barima@jsums.edu<br \/>\nPhone: 601.979.2502<br \/>\nLocation: Dollye M.E. Robinson Building, Office 349<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>DEGREES:<\/strong><br \/>\nPh.D. &#8211; African Diaspora\/Caribbean History, Howard University (2009)<br \/>\nM.A. &#8211; West African Public History, Howard University (2005)<br \/>\nB.A. &#8211; History\/Anthropology, Howard University (2001)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>RESEARCH INTERESTS:<\/strong><br \/>\nObeah, Maroons<br \/>\nPan-Africanism<br \/>\nReggae<br \/>\nBlack Power<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>COURSES TAUGHT:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Undergraduate:<\/em><br \/>\nHIST 102: History of Civilization II<br \/>\nHIST 300: Oral History Methodology<br \/>\nHIST 351: Black Resistance in the Atlantic World<br \/>\nHIST 405: Early Africa<br \/>\nHIST 406: Colonial Africa<\/p>\n<p><em>Graduate:<\/em><br \/>\nHIST 550: Oral History<br \/>\nHIST 552: Problems in American History<br \/>\nHIST 590: Thesis<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS:<\/strong><br \/>\nAssociation of Caribbean Historians<br \/>\nAfrican Heritage Studies Association<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>PUBLICATIONS:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Obeah to Rastafari: Jamaica as a Colony of Ridicule, Oppression and Violence, 1865-1939 Africology: The Journal of Pan African Studies, vol.10, no.1, March 2017<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCutting Across Space and Time: Obeah\u2019s Service to Jamaica\u2019s Freedom Struggle in Slavery and Emancipation\u201d in Africology: The Journal of Pan African Studies, vol.9, no.5, August 2016<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMaritime Marronage\u201d in The Caribbean Slave Routes: Sites of Memory January 24, 2016 (http:\/\/slaveroutes.creativejunction.com\/maritime-marronage\/)<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCaribbean Migrants in Panama and Cuba, 1851-1927: The Struggles, Opposition and Resistance of Jamaicans of African Ancestry\u201d in Journal of Pan-African Studies vol.5, no.9, March 2013<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMilitancy and Spirituality: Haiti\u2019s Revolutionary Impact on Jamaica\u2019s Africans and Afro-Creole 1740-1824\u201d WADABAGEI VOL 14: 1-2 Fall 2013<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>FULL CURRICULUM VITA<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Associate Professor Email: kofi.r.barima@jsums.edu Phone: 601.979.2502 Location: Dollye M.E. Robinson Building, Office 349 &nbsp; DEGREES: Ph.D. &#8211; African Diaspora\/Caribbean History, Howard University (2009) M.A. &#8211; West African Public History, Howard University (2005) B.A. &#8211; History\/Anthropology, Howard University (2001) &nbsp; RESEARCH INTERESTS: Obeah, Maroons Pan-Africanism Reggae Black Power &nbsp; COURSES TAUGHT: Undergraduate: HIST 102: History of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3704,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1912"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3704"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1912"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1912\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2411,"href":"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1912\/revisions\/2411"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1912"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}