Emmanuel Addow-Obeng

Emmanuel Addow-Obeng is a Ghanaian academic, administrator and cleric. He was the vice chancellor of the University of Cape Coast and served as the pro vice chancellor of the Central University of Ghana.

Educational and working life

Addow-Obeng obtained a Doctor of Philosophy degree from the University of Aberdeen in 1981. He returned to the University of Cape Coast to take up an appointment as a senior lecturer. After just a year at the university he moved to the University of Ilorin, Nigeria where he lectured till 1990. He moved to the Moi University, Eldoret, Kenya that same year and was promoted to full professorship in New Testament Studies and Theology in 1996. After years working outside Ghana, he returned in 1997 to the University of Cape Coast to head the Department of Religion. He was appointed the vice chancellor of the University of Cape Coast in 2001. He had a sabbatical at the Central University from 2008 to 2010. The release said Prof Addow-Obeng had also taught at Central University College, Miotso, Ghana, where he had spent his sabbatical in 2008–2010. In 1997, he returned from Kenya to teach at the University of Cape Coast.

Publications

Addow-Obeng has published several books and articles in several national and international journals as well as served on several National and International Boards and committee.