Jeremy Ricketts-Hagan

My name is Jeremy Kweku Ricketts-Hagan, I am an MPhil student in Economic and Social History, studying at St Cross College. I was born in the UK but primarily brought up in Ghana during my formative years.  

Born to a Ugandan mother and a Ghanaian father, I have always carried a continental perspective with me, even when I was too young to even realize it. For long, the varied and continued linkages of the African experience have resonated with me, whether they were displayed in urban metropoles within major nations on the continent, in traditional rural communities, and increasingly…