NYU Accra is New York University’s Global Academic Center in Ghana, based in the Labone neighborhood of Accra, and part of NYU’s worldwide network of study-away sites. Since 2004, NYU Accra has welcomed students for interdisciplinary coursework and immersive learning that uses the city—and Ghana more broadly—as a classroom, while fostering meaningful exchange with local scholars and institutions, including opportunities to study at the University of Ghana–Legon. Our convening is generously hosted by NYU Accra under the leadership of Director Chiké Frankie Edozien, an award-winning journalist and educator who previously led NYU’s Accra-based “Reporting Africa” program for more than a decade and now oversees the site’s academic and community-facing programs.

To Collect & Collate is generously hosted by NYU Accra, with on-the-ground organizational and logistical support provided by the NYU Accra staff.

NYU Accra website: https://www.nyu.edu/accra.html

Chiké Frankie Edozien is the Director of NYU Accra and previously led the Institute’s Ghana-based Reporting Africa program from 2008 to 2019. A seasoned journalist, he built his career covering government, health, culture, and social issues for major international outlets. He is the award-winning author of Lives of Great Men (2017), a Lambda Literary Award–winning exploration of contemporary LGBTQ lives across Africa and the diaspora. His stories “Shea Prince” and “Last Night in Asaba” were both shortlisted for the Gerald Kraak Human Rights Award, with the latter featured in As You Like It, earning him a second Lambda Award in 2019. His writing also appears in The Times (UK), Time Magazine, Vibe, The New York Times, Quartz, Atlas Obscura, Jalada, Transitions, and many others. 

Before joining academia, Edozien spent 15 years at the New York Post, serving as City Hall reporter from 1999–2008 and covering crime, courts, labor, human services, public health, and national politics. He co-founded The AFRican Magazine 2001 and has reported extensively on HIV/AIDS across the world as a 2008 Kaiser Global Health Reporting Fellow. He is also a contributor to Arise News, offering weekly commentary on sub-Saharan African affairs. 

He also convenes the Labone Dialogues, a public forum that brings together experts to discuss pressing issues in politics, culture, business, the environment, and education with students and the wider community at NYU Accra.