Kwasi Sarfo

Kwasi Sarfo is CCNY Postdoctoral Research Fellow at HUMA. He has completed his doctoral studies at the Centre for African Studies at the University of Cape Town. Kwasi’s doctoral thesis focused on the impacts of Large-Scale Land Acquisition (LSLA) for Communal Landholders and investigated the implications of LSLAs by transnational and domestic investors in the wake of the 2007/2008 global food, finance, and energy crises for communal landholders in Ghana. He holds a BA and MA in African Studies from the University of Cape Coast and the University of Ghana, respectively. His research interests include African political economy, land tenure, rural development, agrarian studies and Artificial Intelligence (AI). His postdoctoral research project focuses on the convergence of land tenure, smart city initiatives and AI in the context of urban development in Ghana. Kwasi is also a Lecturer at the Department of Languages and General Studies at the University of Energy and Natural Resources in Sunyani, Ghana.