Gabriel Opare is a Ph.D. Candidate in the Language, Literacy & Social Inquiry program at UMD.His research examines Global Black Rhetorics, Linguistic Justice, Community Literacies & Writing, African Tehnocultures, Cultural Rhetorics, and Political/Feminist discourse studies. His research reimagines community literacies, digital rhetorics, and the rhetorical world making of antiblackness through African Indigenous frameworks such as Nommo, Sankofa, Ukama, Ubuntu, and Ujamaa. His dissertation, Black Ontologies at Work (In Progress): Ethnoraciolinguistic Justice and Xeno-Corporeality in Postcolonial Ghana, offers novel generative grammars on African dynamics of raciolinguistics and how it functions as forms of coloniality of being within global/internal Black discourses. Of essence to his research is how rhetoric and literacy grounded in African cosmology can foster emancipatory and healing discourses for Black folk/x.

Gabriel Opare is a Ph.D. Candidate in the Language, Literacy & Social Inquiry program at UMD.He holds an M.S. in English from Illinois State University, an M.A in TLPL from UMD, and a B. A in English from the University of Education, Winneba, Ghana.

UMD College of  Education Dean's Fellowship (2023)

Top Paper Award,National Communication Association (NCA),Denver, 2025

TALLER AWARD,College of Education UMD, 2025

TESOL Academic Excellence Award,Department of English,Illinois State University (2023)

Opare, G. (2026). Ujamaa discursivities in Ghanaian technopolitical activism: decolonizing critical discourse studies through African epistemologies. Journal of Multicultural Discourses, 1-18.

Opare, G. (2025). Sankofa as Praxis: Ontological Healing, Memory, and Decolonial Return. Cultural Studies↔ Critical Methodologies, 15327086251412926.

Cross-Cultural Communication (Instructor of Record)

Language Variation and Multilingualism in Elementary Classrooms (Instructor of Record)