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Dr. Francis Grant Kwesi Gbormittah

August 14, 2025

Book chapters and journal articles – 

Gbormittah, F. (2025). “Reflections on Ghana’s film heritage: An exclusive conversation with 

            Ernest Kofi Abbeyquaye,” Postcolonial Text, Vol. 20, No 2, pp. 1-16. 

Gbormittah, F. (2024). “What dreams, what projects, what challenges, for a writers’ association?” 

In K.A. Twumesi (Ed.). Ghana Book World No. 12. Accra: Ghana Book Development Council. pp. 41-94.

Gbormittah, F. (2021). “The current state of creative writing in Ghana: Challenges and 

opportunities.” In K.A. Twumesi, J. Agyiri, E. Agyei (Ed.). Ghana Book World No. 7. Accra: Ghana Book Development Council. pp. 50-58.

Adinku, G.U., & Gbormittah, F. (2017). “Makeup and Costume as a means of dramatic 

expression in selected Nigerian Yoruba Home videos.” Inside Nollywood: Issues and Perspectives on Nigerian Cinema. Sola Fosudo & Tunji Azeez (Eds.). New York: Franklin International Publishers. pp. 289-309.

Ayesu, E., Gbormittah, F. & Adum-Kyeremeh, K. (2016b). “British colonialism and women’s 

            welfare in the Gold Coast Colony,” in Africa Today, Vol. 63, No. 2. pp. 52-54. 

Gbormittah, F. (2016). “Performance, oral poetics and ideo-aesthetic heritages in the ‘Search for 

the Soul’ of a poet-cantor.” Journal of Humanities and Cultural Studies, Vol. 1 (Issue 2). pp. 21-42. 

Gbormittah, F. (2014). “Film education and identity construction in a multicultural context.” In 

            A.M. Asiedu, J. Collins, F. Gbormittah & F. Nii-Yartey (Ed.). The Performing Arts in Africa: 

Ghanaian Perspectives. Oxfordshire: Ayebia Clarke Publishing. pp. 123-131. 

Gbormittah, F., Adinku, G.U. (2013b). “The impact of ‘performativity’ on the form and aesthetics 

            of African screen media in production and reception.” The Performer: Ilorin Journal of the 

Performing Arts, Vol. 15. pp. 68-74.

Osei Owusu, J. & Gbormittah, F. (2013a). “FESPACO 2013 Honours African Women,” in African 

Agenda, Vol. 16, No. 2. pp. 35-36. 

Gbormittah, F. (2011). “Spirit and lessons of international co-productions and the making of The 

Destiny of Lesser Animals (Ghana/USA, 2011).” Journal of Performing Arts, Vol. 4, No. 2. pp. 47-56. 

Gbormittah, F. (2009). “Technological innovations and realism in cinema: A case of Steadicam 

and André Bazin’s Theory of Realism.” Journal of Performing Arts, Vol. 4, No. 1. pp. 109-122. 

Forewords, blurbs and poems – 

Gbormittah, F. (2022b). “Foreword.” In O. Allotey, A. Asiedu, G.D. Antonio & Ugoh, S. (Ed.). An 

Anthology of Ghanaian Creative Writing: Poetry, Short Stories and Drama 2021 Collection 

(pp. iii-iv). Accra: Ghana Association of Writers.

Gbormittah, F. (2022a). “The Plight of a Child Slave.” In O. Allotey, A. Asiedu, G.D. Antonio & S. 

Ugoh (Ed.). An Anthology of Ghanaian Creative Writing: Poetry, Short Stories and Drama 

2021 Collection. Accra: Ghana Association of Writers. p. 44.

Gbormittah, F. (2021). “Foreword.” In N.S. Achampong (Ed.). The Lockdown: An Anthology of 16 

short creative nonfiction accounts about living with COVID-19 in 2020 (pp. iv-v). Accra: Ama Ata Aidoo Centre for Creative Writing, African University College of Communications (AUCC).

Gbormittah, F. (2021). “Blurb.” In D. D’Siafa. Beautiful Mind (p. iii). Accra: Firstline Publishing.

Gbormittah, F. (2020). “Blurb.” In G.K. Tordzro & A.J. Ayuune. Ancestral Code (back page). Glasgow: AdinkraLinks Publications.