Prof. De-Valera Botchway (PhD), who is currently the Head of the History Department at University of Cape Coast, Ghana, is Professor of History (Social and Cultural History of African and Diasporic African Peoples). He is a member of several committees and boards, such as Academic Planning and Management Committee, Library Committee, and Academic Board, at University of Cape Coast.

Apart from being an academic, he is a ritual specialist-performer of African-centred spiritual systems. He facilitates, coaches and executes programmes and consultancies related to cultural practices such as rites of passage, naming ceremonies, and initiation of returnees from the Diaspora into indigenous knowledge systems, communities and families in Ghana. Prof. Botchway has had scholarship and research enterprises in some international universities such as University of Cambridge, England, as Fellow of the Centre of African Studies from 2006 to 2007; University of South Florida, as Visiting Scholar and Global Academic Partner in 2010; and Grand Valley State University, Michigan, as Exchange Faculty in 2012. He was given the African Humanities Program Fellowship award of 2013/2014 by the American Council of Learned Societies, and had a postdoctoral experience at the University of the Western Cape, Cape Town, South Africa. He is a member of the Historical Society of Ghana; patron of African Students Empowerment Group and Sons and Daughters of Africa, which are two Pan African, social justice and youth empowerment students’ groups at Cape Coast; and projects partner of 3GC Inc. in Ghana. His publications include Boxing is no Cakewalk! Azumah.