Michael Okyere Asante is an Assistant Lecturer at the University of Environment and Sustainable Development, Somanya, and a PhD candidate in Ancient Philosophy at the University of Cambridge. He has been a visiting student at the American School of Classical Studies in Athens, the Hardt Foundation, and Humboldt University of Berlin. His research focuses on Greek and African political thought, the decolonisation of Classics, and the history of the discipline in Africa. He is co-editor (with David van Schoor and Kofi Ackah) of the Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies special issue on Decolonising Classics in Africa (BICS 65.1). Since 2018, he has worked to broaden access to Classics in Africa through the International Classics Conference in Ghana, public panels, and collaborations such as Global Classics and Africa, Classics Beyond Borders, and Classics and/in Africa.

Michael’s doctoral research re-examines the liberal–communitarian debate in Plato’s Republic through Kwame Gyekye’s theory of moderate communitarianism. His future projects include a Twi translation of selected Greek texts and two monographs, on the history of Classics in Ghana and on decolonising Classics in Africa. His research has been supported by the Smuts Cambridge International Fellowship, the Society for Classical Studies, the Loeb Classical Library Foundation, and the Lisa Maskell Fellowship.