Dr. Akwasi P. Osei is Professor of History and Political Science in the Department of History, Political Science and Philosophy at Delaware State University.  He chaired the department for 15 years, and was Interim Dean of the College of Humanities, Education and Social Sciences from January 2021 to December 2023.  

 

He is also Director of the Global Societies Program at DSU.

He earned his college and graduate degrees at Oberlin College, Ohio University, and Howard University, Washington, DC. His expertise is Global Africa; Africa in the international system, Global Studies, International political economy; and multicultural and interdisciplinary education. 

 

These are all areas in which he has published. His latest publication is the updated textbook, Where Do I fit?  My Place in the Global Community in 2021. His Recurrence and Change in a Post Independence African State, published in 1999 was reissued in 2003 in paperback.  

 

Widely sought after as a speaker and consultant, he has appeared before organizations throughout the United States, China, Canada, South Africa, and Ghana.
 

His honors include DSU’s Faculty Excellence Award in Service, and the Distinguished Scholar and Educator award given by the Mid-Atlantic Writers Association. He has been a Distinguished Visiting Professor at the University of New Mexico; a Chesapeake Scholar at the University of Virginia; and a Ford Foundation Fellow at Howard University. He has traveled widely around the world.
 

Dr. Osei spent fall semester 2006 at the Ghana Institute of Management and Public Administration (GIMPA) in Ghana as Dean of the former GIMPA School of Governance, Leadership and Public Management. ​​