
Boatema BoatengPh.D. in Communications, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (2002)
"The Copyright Thing Doesn't Work Here": Cloth, Culture and Power and Intellectual Property Law in Ghana. University of Minnesota Press (forthcoming)
"Walking the Tradition-Modernity Tightrope: Gender Contradictions in Textile Production and Intellectual Property Law in Ghana" American University Journal of Gender, Social Policy and the Law Vol. 15:2, 2008.
"Local and Global Sites of Power in the Circulation of Ghanaian Adinkra" in Paula Chakrabartty & Yuezhi Zhao (eds.) Global Communications: Toward a Transcultural Political Economy. Rowman & Littlefield, 2007.
"Square Pegs in Round Holes? Cultural Production, Intellectual Property Frameworks and Discourses of Power" in Rishab Ayer Ghosh (ed.) CODE: Collaborative Ownership and the Digital Economy. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2005.
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