Emeritus Professor Kwesi Kwaa Prah, is the founder and former Director of the Centre for Advanced Studies of African Society (CASAS) based in Cape Town. He was educated at the Universities of Leiden and Amsterdam. He has worked extensively across Africa, Europe and Asia researching and teaching Sociology and Anthropology in various universities including Makerere University, Uganda; University of Botswana and Swaziland; University of Juba, Sudan; Cape Coast University, Ghana; National University of Lesotho; University of Namibia; University of the Western Cape; University of Heidelberg; the Amsterdam Municipal University, and the Institute for West Asian and African Studies, China.

Professor Prah has also been a Nuffield Fellow and Associate at the Centre for African Studies, Cambridge University, and served as Professorial Research Fellow at the Namibia Economic Policy Research Unit. He is currently engaged with the University of Zululand. Prah has written many books including The Social Background of Coups d’etat. (Brazil 1964, Indonesia 1965, Ghana 1966) (1973), Essays on African Society and History (1976), Beyond the Color Line (1998), African Languages for the Mass Education of Africans (1995), Capitein. A Critical Study of an 18th Century African (1992), The Bantustan Brain Gain (1989), Mother Tongue for Scientific and Technological Development in Africa (2000), The African Nation: The State of the Nation (2006), 31. Kromantsihene; Before and After Garvey (2019) etc.