Akwasi is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of History Education, University of Education, Winneba, Ghana, and a Senior Research Associate in the Department of History, University of Johannesburg, South Africa. He received his initial teacher training education at Wesley College, Kumasi, Ghana, from 2001 to 2004. He later completed a BA honors degree in history at the University of Ghana in 2009 and an MA and Doctorate in Historical Studies at the University of Johannesburg, South Africa, in 2012 and 2019, respectively. Akwasi is presently the vice dean of the School of Graduate Studies at the University of Education, Winneba. He also serves on the Advisory Board of the WomanAtwork project headquartered at the Institute of African Worlds in Paris. He is on the editorial board of Sankofa - Ghana Journal of Archaeology and Heritage Studies.  Akwasi’s interests in African history and African Studies span political economy, comparative labor history, economic history, the social history of medicine and public health, the history of sanitation and public hygiene, and the history of African religious and traditional aetiologies. He has published extensively in reputable international and local journals, including the Journal of Social History, Social History, Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences, etc. He is a co-editor of the most recent volume on education in Ghana titled Education in Ghana: History and Politics, published in 2023 by Langaa RPCIG.