Prof. Dr. Osuanyi Quaicoo Essel

Department of Textiles & Fashion Education
University of Education, Winneba, Ghana
eyensempii@gmail.com
oqessel@uew.edu.gh

Publications

  • Essel, O. Q. (2021). Ghana’s iconic fashion designers in the world of fashion. Exceller Books.
  • Avoke, E. K. & Essel, O. Q. (2017). Introduction to creative arts therapy. Accra: Salt ‘N’ Light Publication.
  • Essel O. Q. (2015). Kojo Fosu in African Art History: a Biography. Winneba: Author.Download from: http://artwatchghana.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/KOJO_FOSU_IN_AFRICAN_ART_HISTORY.pdf
  • Kraamer, M. & Essel, O. Q. (2021). Creative collaborations between consumers and fashion designers: The role of fashion posters in urban and rural Ghana. In Sarah Cheang, Erica de Greef & Yoko Takagi (Eds.), Rethinking Fashion Globalisation (pp. 191-207). Bloomsbury.
  • Essel, O. Q., Navei, N. & P. deGraft-Yankson (2021). “The President has Gone Western on us”: Analysis of the 2021 Presidential Inaugural Ceremony Dress Fashion Choice of Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo. International Journal of Research & Innovations, 10(6), 33 – 38. DOI No.: 10.24940/ijird/2021/v10/i6/JUN21019
  • Essel, O. Q. (2021). Covid-19 pandemic fight in Ghana: Domestic production of personal protective equipment (PPE) and linguistic choices in presidential addresses from March – Novemeber 2020. European Journal of Social Sciences Studies, 6(4), 14 – 32. DOI: 10.46827/ejsss.v6i4.1065
  • Essel, O. Q. (2021). Conflicting tensions in decolonizing proscribed Afrocentric hair beauty culture standards in Ghanaian senior high schools. Internal Journal of Research and Scientific Innovations (IJRSI) 8(3), 116 – 122. DOI: https://dx.doi.org/10.51244/IJRSI.2021.8308
  • Essel, O. Q. (2021). Historical and sociocultural relevance of royal ‘ahenema’ sandals in Asante culture. IOSR Journal of Humanities and Social Science, 26(4), 27 – 34.
  • Essel, O. Q. & Asare, G. D. (2020). Breaking the academic silence on anonymity of indigenous textiles: Textile art of Nana Kwaku Duah II in focus. Journal of African Art Education, 1(1), 21 – 41.
  • Essel, O. Q. (2019). Dress fashion politics of Ghanaian presidential inauguration ceremonies from 1960 – 2017. Fashion and Textiles Review, 1(3), 35 – 55.
  • Essel, O. Q. (2019). Challenges hampering the growth of dress fashion design in the Ghana fashion industry. Journal of Small Business and Entrepreneurship Development, 7(2), 1 – 6.
  • Essel, O. Q. (2019). Decolonising Ghana fashion education and training history. International Journal of Humanities & Social Studies, 7(7), 381 – 392.
  • Franke, M. L., Lersner, U. V., Essel, O. Q., Adorjan, K., Schomerus, G., Gómez-Carrillo, A.,Ta, T. M. T., Böge, K., Mobashery, M., Dettling, M., Diefenbacher, A., Angermeyer, M. C. & Hahn, E. (2018). The relationship between causal beliefs and desire for social distance towards people with schizophrenia and depression: Results from a survey of young Ghanaian adults. Psychiatry Research, 271, 220 – 225. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.psychres.2018.11.030
  • Essel, O. Q. (2017). Deconstructing the concept of ‘African print’ in the Ghanaian experience. Africology: The Journal of Pan African Studies, 11(1), 37 – 48.
  • Essel, O. Q., & Opoku-Mensah, I. (2017). Dress fashion in feminist and child rights campaigns in Ghanaian public sculptures of the 1990s. International Journal of Education & the Arts, 18(32), 1 – 18.   ISSN: 1529-8094. Retrieved from http://www.ijea.org/v18n32/
  • Essel, O. Q. (2017). AFCON 2017 Hairstyles Fashion Identity Construction of Selected Players. International Journal of Social Sciences and Management Research, 3( 6), 13 – 26. ISSN: 2545-5303
  • Essel, O. Q., Opoku-Mensah, I. & Teye, Q. V. (2016). Public private partnership: The unanswered calls of the Ghana national museum?  International Journal of Art & Humanity Science 4(1), 01 – 07.  e-ISSN: 2349-5235
  • Essel, O. Q. & Opoku-Mensah, I. (2016). Art against the odds: Textiles art in perspective.  International Journal of Innovative Research & Development, 5(12), 203 – 210.
  • Essel, O. Q. & Acquah E. K. (2016). Conceptual art: The untold story of African art.  Journal of Literature and Art Studies, 6(10), 1203 – 1220.
  • Essel, O. Q. (2016). The gown must go to town. In Curator The Museum Journal 59(2), 103 – 111.
  • Amissah, E.K.  Amoako, B. A. & Essel, O. Q. (2016). Nwomu: Hand-Made Embroidery Technique in Asanteland. Journal of Literature and Art Studies, 6 (5), 500 – 511. doi: 10.17265/2159-5836/2016.05.001
  • Essel, O. Q. & Kemevor, A. K.  (2016). Aesthetical tastes of academical and traditional costumes in academic processions. In Fashion and Textiles, 3(1), 1 – 8. doi: 10.1186/s40691-015-0053-6
  • Essel, O. Q. & Amissah, E. K.  (2015). Smock fashion culture in Ghana’s dress identity-making. In Historical Research Letters, 18, 32 – 38.
  • Bonsoo, E. O., I, Opoku-Mensah & Essel, O. Q. (2015). Soapstone Carving Assemblage.  In Arts and Design Studies, 29, 29 – 35.
  • Essel, O. Q., Agyarkoh, E., Sumaila, M. S. & Yankson, D. P. (2014). TVET stigmatization in developing countries: reality or fallacy? In European Journal of Training and Development Studies, 1(1), 27 – 42.
  • Essel, O. Q. & Opoku-Mensah, I. (2014). Pan-African artistic reflections in Kwame Nkrumah Memorial Park. In International Journal of African Society, Culture and Traditions, 1(2), 30 – 41.
  • Essel, O. Q. (2014). Libation Art in Art of Ghana: Linking the Unlinked. In International Journal of African Society, Culture and Traditions, 1(1), 39 – 49.
  • Essel, O. Q. (2014). Nkrumaism in Sculptural Archetypes of Nkrumah. In Arts and Design Studies, 17(1), 45 – 57.
  • Essel, O. Q. & Amissah, E. K.  (2014). In Search of Ghana’s Appropriate Modern Dress Code. In Arts and Design Studies, 20, 45 – 57.
  • Essel, O. Q. (2013). Our Arts: Our Health and Wealth. In Journal of Arts and Culture, 1(1), 83 – 92.
  • Opoku-Mensah, I. & Essel, O. Q. (2013). Voyage of excellence. In Journal of Arts and Culture, 1(1), 147 – 157.