Yaa Nkrumah
Home Department: English
Yaa (Kate Rhoda) Nkrumah is a student of Comparative Literary Studies with a home department in English. She holds two Bachelor of Arts degrees from Howard University in African Studies and Political Science, where she graduated Summa Cum Laude. Yaa’s scholarly investments interrogate embodied performance and the role of women in West African Islamic literary traditions, analyzing how women speak through the narrative as a form of societal critique and simultaneous religious devotion. Broadly, she is interested in the role of women in the Black radical tradition and exploring the literature of the African diaspora.