I am a doctoral researcher in African Management Knowledge and Economic History in the Emmy Noether Research Group Managing Development under the supervision of Dr. Katharina Kreuder-Sonnen. 

I studied Economic and Social History and the History of International Politics at the University of Marburg, where I earned two M.A. degrees in 2026. 

My research focuses on the history of management and the history of development in West Africa. I am particularly interested in the historical significance of management practices in Ghana during the “Development Ara” (Frederick Cooper) and in the extent to which management knowledge was produced locally and how knowledge from outside the Ghanaian context was adapted and adjusted to the local context.

• History of economic knowledge
• History of West Africa
• Economic History 
• History of Development 

Working at the Global South Studies Center offers an inspiring interdisciplinary research environment. I particularly value the exchange with colleagues from different fields and the opportunity to engage with a broad range of perspectives, which makes the Global South Studies Center an enriching place to pursue my research.

Engineering Modernity: A History of Management Knowledge in Ghana during the Development Era (1950–1970)

This project examines the history of management knowledge in postcolonial Ghana during the development era from 1950 to 1970. While existing scholarship has primarily understood management as a product of Western capitalism, the project investigates how managerial knowledge was produced, transferred, and transformed within Ghana itself. It focuses on the interaction between international organizations such as the International Labour Organization (ILO), Ghanaian state institutions, businesses, trade unions, and local managers. 

Drawing on approaches from the history of knowledge and postcolonial history, the project explores management not merely as a set of economic techniques but also as a normative vision of social order. It asks how ideas of productivity, efficiency, and leadership shaped broader concepts of capitalist modernity, labor discipline, and development in the first decades after independence. Particular attention is paid to the role of local actors, whose practices and experiences actively reshaped already existing concepts of management rather than simply adopting them.

The project contributes to a better understanding of the history of management and highlights the epistemic agency of actors from the Global South.