Thursday, May 10, 2012—Dr. Isidore Lobnibe, Anthropology
Western Oregon University

“The Immigrant Factor in Ghanaian Electoral Politics and The Politics of Belonging in
Brong Ahafo.”

Dr. Lobnibe is a socio-cultural anthropologist working in Ghana with interests in peasant
economy, political economy, agrarian and environmental systems, labor migration, social
organization, popular culture, historiography, and the Black Diaspora. Educated in
Ghana and the United States, his current research focuses on the impact of migration
from rural villages to plantations on both home communities and the migrants
themselves. In this paper, he will explore how these migrants are incorporated into the
modern state political system.