(Un) Settled Strangers? The Koreans in Ghana since Independence (1957-2017). (Centre for Asian Studies)

In recent times deepening political, economic and cultural ties between Africa and Asia suggests the emergence of a multipolar world in which the Indo-Pacific Afrasia region is becoming a significant player. In the sixty years of Ghana’s independence and forty years of Ghana-Korea relations, Korean migrants have settled in especially the port city of Tema where they have set up businesses, lent their names to neighborhoods, engaged in philanthropic activity and generally contributed to Ghanaian socio-economic and political life. This research attempted to contribute to a deeper, nuanced and variegated understanding of Africa-Asia ties via a peculiar and rare examination of Ghana-Korea relations within the framework of South-South cross-national relations, migration, settlement and hybridization.