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Kwame Otu
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Kwame Edwin Otu is an associate professor in the African Studies Program at Georgetown University’s Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service. A cultural anthropologist, his research examines sexuality, environmental and technological citizenship, public health, and racial formations in Africa and its diaspora. His book, Amphibious Subjects (2022), explores queer identity, self-making, and LGBT politics in neoliberal Ghana. His current project, The Salvage Slot: Technology and the Ecologies of the After-Afterlife, investigates the global politics of electronic waste through an ethnographic study of waste workers in Agbogbloshie, Ghana, examining the environmental and social consequences of global technological consumption.