Lamin Sanneh Research Prize 2022-24 awarded to Francis Benyah
26 september, 2022
PhD student Francis Benyah has been awarded the prestigious Lamin Sanneh Research Prize 2022-24. The prize sum is 10,000 USD.
Francis Benyah is a doctoral student at the Department for the Study of Religions at Åbo Akademi University, and his project is entitled ”Mapping Cosmologies of Mental Health: A Study on Pentecostal Prayer Camps and Indigenous Knowledge of Healing in Ghana”.
In addition to his doctoral research here at here at the Faculty of Arts, Psychology and Theology, Benyah teaches in the Master’s Degree Programme in Social Exclusion. His research interest focuses on African Pentecostal Christianity with a special interest in how it intersects and interact with public life in areas such as media, politics, health, and human rights.