Dr. Helena Asamoah-Hassan | |
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| Nationality | Ghanaian |
| Occupation | librarian |
| Website | https://web.aflia.net/ |
Helena R. Asamoah-Hassan [1] (born 1950s in Cape Coast) is a Ghanaian librarian who is the present Executive Director of African Library and Information Associations and Institutions (AfLIA), the Board Chair for the Ghana Library Authority [2] [3] and the Secretary General of African Regional Memory of the World Committee [4]
She is the immediate past University Librarian of the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST). [5] President of the Ghana Library Association from 2002 to 2006, [6] and the first president of the African Library and Information Associations and Institutions (AfLIA). [7] She served as the Chairperson of the International Advisory Committee for UNESCO’s Memory of the World Programme 2013 – 2015. [8] [9] A member of the IFLA Governing Board 2010 - 2012 [10] and the Chairperson of the Management Committee of the Consortium of Academic and Research Libraries in Ghana (CARLIGH) as well as a founding member from March 2004 to 2013 [11]
Her education started at the Breman Asikuma Roman Catholic School, (Takoradi), Howard Memorial Primary School (Takoradi) and continued at the Nyaniba Middle Boarding School (Nkroful), where she obtained her middle school certificate and then to Konongo Odumasi Secondary School for her secondary education. She gained admission to study Library Science at Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, Nigeria (1977) for a bachelor's degree. she obtained her Master of Arts Degree in Library Studies (University of Ghana, 1981), and a PhD from the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST, 2011). [12]
Positions held by Dr. Helena Asamoah-Hassan include and not limited to the following:
As a Librarian and a leader, she has contributed to knowledge in all aspects of Librarianship having ninety six (96) papers to her credit. These papers were presented at Conferences and seminars at national and International level.
Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), commonly known as UST, Tech or Kwame Tech, is a public university located in Kumasi, Ashanti region, Ghana. The university focuses on science and technology. It is the second public university established in the country, as well as the largest university in the Ashanti Region of Ghana.
The College of Art and Built Environment came into existence in January 2005 in Kumasi, Ghana, as part of the restructuring of the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology into a Collegiate System. In the restructuring, the Faculty of Environmental and Development studies (FEDS) and the Institute of Land Management and Development (ILMAD) were merged to form the college.
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Atta Kwami was a Ghanaian painter, printmaker, independent art historian and curator. He was educated and taught at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), Kumasi, Ghana, and in the United Kingdom. He created works that improvise form and colour and speak to uniquely Ghanaian architecture and African strip-woven textiles, including those of the Kente, the Ewe and Asante of Ghana.
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Priscilla Kolibea Mante is a Ghanaian neuropharmacologist, a researcher and lecturer from Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, currently based at the Kumasi campus. Her research work focuses on alternatives of plant-based therapeutic options to manage drug-resistant epilepsy and the neglected tropical disease neurocysticercosis. In her work, she mostly explores the anticonvulsant activity of the plant alkaloid cryptolepine and its solid-lipid nanoparticles in the management of neurocysticercosis-induced epilepsy. Her goal is to identify a way to help cryptolepine permeate more efficiently into the central nervous system to reduce the risk of convulsion, helping patients to manage their condition as effectively as possible. Aside from her studies of epilepsy, Mante has also worked toward new therapies to alleviate pain, anxiety, and depression.
The African Library and Information Associations and Institutions (AfLIA), commonly referred to as AfLIA, is an international not-for-profit organization headquartered in Accra, Ghana. The Association is registered under the laws of Ghana as an NGO. It is managed under the general guidelines of its Constitution and by-laws.The Institution is currently being led by Dr. Helena Asamoah-Hassan as the Executive Director.
Peter Twumasi is a Ghanaian biochemist, author, and professor at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology. He was the director general of the National Sports Authority of Ghana from December 2018. until February 2024 when he left the position days following the tragic, suspicious and untimely death of his son, Jim Ofori Twumasi, a final year Economics student at KNUST.
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